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2nd Maine veteran funded the monument to his regiment
A veteran’s desire to immortalize the 2nd Maine Infantry Regiment in bronze and stone finally bore fruit more than a century after the outfit left central Maine to help save the Union. Born to lumberman Waldo Treat Peirce and his wife, Hannah Jane Peirce, in Bangor in 1837, Luther Hills Peirce grew up on Harlow […]
Read more...130 Years Later: A Return to Antietam
Recently I returned to Antietam with two objects from my personal collection of veteran items. These ribbons were worn by veterans of the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry when they returned to Antietam to reunite and reminisce. I have a familial connection (my 4th-great grandfather) to the 130th Pennsylvania, and I’ve previously written about the regiment’s recruitment, […]
Read more...Civil War Cooking: Dr. Potter’s Fine Dining on May 31, 1863
The most complicated food menu experience ends the series this year… Civil War surgeons had a hard and unenviable experience, but some of them ate pretty well between battles. Multiple menus from surgeons’ dining tables caught my eye this year, but Dr. William Potter of the 57th New York Regiment won the prize for the […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Determined to Stand and Fight
When I reflect on the battle of Monocacy and the origins of what eventually became Determined to Stand and Fight, I think back to how the engagement outside of Frederick, Maryland, gave me a greater appreciation for the smaller actions of the Civil War. As a student of the Civil War, I had certainly spent […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Don’t Give an Inch
When it came to writing Don’t Give an Inch, I was very excited to put pen to paper but, at the same time, I’m not going to lie: I was a little bit nervous. We decided to break up the Emerging Civil War series into smaller books when it came to Gettysburg because we knew […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Hell Itself
Fewer battlefields have more mystique than the Wilderness. For three days, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia hammered at each other in a dense second-growth forest that soldiers described as “the dark, close wood.” During the battle, the forest caught fire in a number of places, trapping wounded soldiers in […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Strike Them a Blow
When people ask me which of my books is my favorite, I try to tell them it’s like picking a favorite child. “I don’t like to play favorites,” I say. “Each one has things that make them my favorite.” That’s certainly true of my three kids—who are each my favorite—and it’s true of my books. […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: That Furious Struggle
Like The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson and Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, That Furious Struggle: The Battle of Chancellorsville had a previous life as part of a book series Kris White and I worked on for Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. And, as with those other books, once the publisher of […]
Read more...The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: A Season of Slaughter
Here is the crazy little secret about A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: we produced that book in a month. Soup to nuts. We wrote it, edited it, designed it, and proofed it in a month. It went like this:
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