My Life as a Black Civil War Living Historian—part three
Part three in a series One fall day in 2010 at the Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield, while giving a tour, I ran into John Cummings, a Spotsylvania Civil War historian I had known for a while. We served together on the Board of Directors of the Civil War Life Foundation. After I finished my tour, […]
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There was nothing that Abraham Lincoln loved more than a good joke or humorous anecdote. His favorite author, for daily reading at least, was Charles Farrar Brown, the man who wrote as Artemus Ward. Lincoln loved a good joke, and could laugh, even if the joke was at his own expense. When Lincoln was asked […]
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