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Mexican-American War 170th: Mexico City’s Gates
Chapultepec had fallen, leaving the fortress walls slick with human gore. As the Americans stopped to take stock in what they had captured, Maj. Gen. John Quitman was figuring what else he could do. Quitman, a New York born former … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battles, Mexican War
Tagged Belen Gate, Chapultepec, Edmund Kirby Smith, John C. Pemberton, John Quitman, Mexican-American War 170th, Mounted Rifles, P.G.T. Beauregard, San Cosme Gate, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas J. Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, William Loring, William Worth
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Paying My Respects to George Gordon Meade
The paths and driveways through Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery remind me of an ant farm I had when I was a kid. The ways twist and scurry across the landscape unpredictably in three dimensions. The map makes it all seem … Continue reading
