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Remembering 9/11 and the Lesson of Antietam (2023)
It has become my custom on 9/11 to think back to a different day during a different September when America suffered an even more catastrophic loss of life. As I first explained in 2012, the events of...
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Antietam: Captured Moments from the Battlefield
On the anniversary of the battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg (September 17, 1862), here are some photos from the Maryland fighting ground. Take a moment to see the story of battle, memory, peace, and...
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The Lions of Antietam and Verdun
Paul Landowski’s ‘France,’ with his ‘Les Fantomes’ in the background. On the Butte Chalmont near Oulchy-le-Château in the Aisne, commemorating the French troops of the Second Battle of the Marne....
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September 2023 Maine at War blog posts
In September 2023 my Maine at War blog reported on topics ranging from the Republican governor who got into trouble with his own party from the “git go” to a fast-thinking Mainer who impersonated Ohio....
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Book Review: I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the...
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign. By D. Scott Hartwig. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 781 pp. $54.95. Reviewed...
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Book Review: Hood’s Defeat Near Fox’s Gap: Prelude to Emancipation
Hood’s Defeat Near Fox’s Gap: Prelude to Emancipation. By Curtis L. Older. Philadelphia and Oxford: Casemate Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, 210 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by John G. Selby In writing Hood’s...
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Book Review: Charley: The True Story of the Youngest Soldier to Die in the...
Charley: The True Story of the Youngest Soldier to Die in the American Civil War. By Brendan J. Lyons. Havertown, PA: Brookline Books, 2023. Softcover, 160 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Kevin Pawlak Of the...
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Book Review: A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg and...
A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg and Beyond. By John Banks. Gettysburg: Gettysburg Publishing, 2023. 320 pp. $28.95 Reviewed by Sarah Kay Bierle The peaceful, harrowing, and...
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November 2023 Maine at War blog posts
Civil War monument in Caribou, Maine. (Brian Swartz) 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...
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Book Review: Calamity at Frederick: Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191,...
Calamity at Frederick: Robert E. Lee, Special Orders No. 191, and Confederate Misfortune on the Road to Antietam. By Alexander B. Rossino. California: Savas-Beatie, 2023. Softcover, 155 pp. $18.95....
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