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Author Archives: Meg Groeling
Weekly Whitman: “Thick-Sprinkled Bunting”
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag!—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death! For the prize I see at issue, at last is the world! All its ships and shores I see, interwoven with … Continue reading
Weekly Whitman: “By the Bivouac’s Fearful Flame”
By the bivouac’s fitful flame, A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note, The tents of the sleeping army, the fields’ and woods’ dim outline, The darkness lit by spots of kindled fire, the silence, … Continue reading
Weekly Whitman: “America”
Walt Whitman himself reads this short poem, caught for posterity on a wax cylinder.
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged America, Edison wax cylinders, Walt Whitman, weekly-whitman
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Book Review: Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War
Luckily for readers, Stephen M. Hood is a good writer. He is a collateral descendant of Confederate General John Bell Hood and takes his self-imposed charge to restore his ancestors’ good name and those of other Confederates very seriously. Patriots Twice goes … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Ties to the War
Tagged Book Review, Patriots Twice, Reconstruction, Stephen M. Hood
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Weekly Whitman: Ashes of Soldiers
Whitman included this in his “Songs of Parting” collection. It was originally published in Drum-Taps in 1865 and can be found in earlier prose forms in an assortment of places. He did not only write about Union soldiers, although he … Continue reading
Not a Trick—Walt Whitman Every Week!
In between doing the final edits for First Fallen, reviewing books, worrying about everything in general and nothing in particular, and petting cats, I have been noodling around with some ways of writing about American poet Walt Whitman. He is … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civilian, Primary Sources
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War poetry, Walt Whitman, weekly-whitman
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Genealogist of Note: Ryan Hendricks
I never particularly cared who my ancestors were, but I have learned to use ancestor.com, fold3, findagrave, etc. in my research. Nevertheless, when someone actually knows about their ancestor who fought in the Civil War, I admit my curiosity is … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Ties to the War
Tagged genealogy, Ryan Hendricks
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Home Libraries: Tending the Groeling Library
Anyone reading this who doesn’t love books? I thought not! But a book can be a harsh mistress. At some point, they can become overwhelming. The deaths of my parents–bibliophiles both–made it very clear that leaving my books for someone … Continue reading
A Statue That Really Ought to GO!
There is a gilded fiberglass statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest off Highway 65 in Tennessee, just south of Nashville. It is on Bill Dorris’s property. Bill Dorris is a realtor in Nashville, Tennessee. When interviewed about his statue and its … Continue reading
Posted in Monuments
Tagged Bill Dorris, Confederate Monument, Jack Kershaw, Nathan Bedford Forrest
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Book Review: “Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General”
In Radical Warrior: August Willich’s Journey from German Revolutionary to Union General, author David Dixon rescues another “B” list historical figure from obscurity and puts him front and center in the American and German narrative. Dixon, a public historian and Civil … Continue reading
