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Dumb-Ass Reenactor of the Month
And for the winner of this month’s Dumb-Ass Reenactor of the Month Award, I give you this brilliant Montana school superintendent. From the March 8 edition of the Billings Gazette: Superintendent accidentally discharges muzzleloader in class ROB ROGERS Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Monday,...
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Published 5 days ago

Interview Posted
I’ve given an interview on my new book on the Battle of Brandy Station that has been posted on the CWPT website that can be found here. The CWPT is offering the book for sale as part of its regular fund raising efforts. I really appreciate the support given my work by the CWPT, and it’s...
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Published 6 days ago

A Clarification About My Brandy Station Book
I had something pointed out to me that needs to be clarified out here. It’s critical that credit be given when and where it’s due, and that’s the purpose of this e-mail. As I mentioned the other day, the release of my Brandy Station book is imminent. The book features maps that were done...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Update on Brandy Station Book
For those of you who are interested in my forthcoming book on the Battle of Brandy Station, the publisher informed me today that things are on schedule, that the books are scheduled to ship from the printer on March 17, and that they will be in The History Press’ warehouse on the 19th. For...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Yesterday’s Cavalry Conference
Yesterday, I was one of the presenters at the 11th annual Civil War conference at Longwood University. My friend Patrick Schroeder, who is the National Park Service historian at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, puts on this event each year with Prof. David J. Coles of Longwood,...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Avoid at All Costs
Some time ago, a friend named Jim Lamason came up with what seemed to be an honorable idea. Jim wanted to honor the men who gave the last full measure of their devotion at Gettysburg by forming a new organization to be called the Gettysburg Historical Association. I helped Jim with formulating...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Bvt. Lt. Col. Richard S. C. Lord
Time for another profile of a completely forgotten cavalryman. Richard S. C. Lord was born in 1832 on his father’s farm near Bellefontaine, Ohio. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy from Ohio in 1852, and graduated 40th out of 47 in the class of 1856. The class of 1856 also...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Civil War Remains Found on Bald Head Island
My friend Teej Smith sent along a really intriguing little tidbit about the discovery of Civil War-era human remains found on Bald Head Island, south of Wilmington, NC. Susan and I have spent several delightful vacations at Teej’s lovely home on Bald Head, so this tidbit is of great interest...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Another Upcoming Event
I’ve also agreed to participate in an upcoming Civil War conference to be conducted at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The event is March 26-27, and I will be doing a completely different presentation at Liberty from the one I’m giving next weekend at Longwood University....
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Published 3 weeks ago

Michael Aubrecht’s New Blog
As I have announced here, I am branching out a bit into studying the Revolutionary War. So, too, has Michael Aubrecht. In fact, Michael has reconfigured his blog from a Civil War blog to a Revolutionary War blog called Blog or Die: A Historian’s Journey Through the Revolution. It will be...
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Published 4 weeks ago