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Tag: Department of the Gulf
November 2023 Maine at War blog posts
In November 2023 my Maine at War blog reported on five men who came from Maine’s last frontier — the deep woods of Aroostook County — to help save the United States. They left parents, wives, and children to do so, and not all of them returned home. November 1: A soldier named America Despite…
Grant Ascending . . .
The events of July 4, 1863, cemented Ulysses S. Grant’s position as a household name firmly into the public mind. The capitulation of the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg to “Unconditional Surrender” Grant of Donelson fame – on Independence Day no less – electrified the North and dismayed the South. And yet, after Vicksburg Grant and…