http://hdlns.com/g1180 http://hdlns.com/rss_g1180.xml Arts and Entertainment -> Humanities -> History -> Conflicts en-us Aggregation copyright hdlns (dot com), articles copyright original authors. http://hdlns.com/g1180/Conflicts+-+Historical+Conflicts+News+and+Articles HDLNS.com is the easiest to use aggregated content RSS Reader on the net. No need to sign up, nothing to remember. Just browse and read. http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za44913881/Military+History+Carnival+%2322 … is underway at Thompson-Werk. http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za44913882/Losing+Sergeant+X By LTC Robert Bateman This is a slightly expanded version of an op/ed that appeared in AOL News on March 1, 2010. Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bateman is a professional infantry officer, historian, and author. A long time ago, when Don't Ask, Don't Te http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44909315/Review%3A+Loyal+Hearts%3A+Histories+of+American+Civil+War+Canines Loyal Hearts: Histories of American Civil War Canines by Michael Zucchero Product Details Hardcover: 184 pages Publisher: Schroeder Publications; 1st edition (February 16, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889246573 ISBN-13: 978-1889246574 Hor http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44875167/Dean+West%27s+Bio Editor’s Note: Dean West has graciously decided to join TOCWOC as a new blogger.  Dean’s recent comments on one of Fred Ray’s posts and the resulting email exchange which followed made it clear Dean was one of the “obsessivel http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44875166/Those+Rainbow+Trajectories Commentators on the rifle musket have made much of its so-called “rainbow” trajectory that made the rifle ball travel in a much higher arc than than today’s rifles due to its slow muzzle velocity. However, a lot of misunderstandings http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za44813408/Gettysburg+in+the+Rain This past weekend, I got to do something I haven’t had to do in a VERY long time, which was to spend some time in Gettysburg with no agenda and no real commitments other than to enjoy myself. The trip had its genesis in a speech to the Allison http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za44808451/John+Dower%27s+War+and+Tom+Hank%27s+Imbecility I wrote and posted the following essay two and half years ago. I'm reposting it in answer to Tom Hank's recent statement that, 'Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out t http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44806334/Graduate+school+for+history%3A+not+a+good+idea No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44770318/Review%3A+The+Long+Shadow+of+the+Civil+War%3A+Southern+Dissent+and+Its+Legacies Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. The University of North Carolina Press (2010). 240 pages, 9 illustrations, 1 map, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 $35.00 (Hardcover). Was the http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8686za44742743/The+Friesland+ship+Gideon+in+1631 No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44703403/More+on+Battle+Ranges Last week I looked at a study by a serving US Army officer, Maj. Thomas Erhart, about the need for longer range infantry weapons in Afghanistan. While looking at some of the supporting material I came across a fascinating study the Army conducted in http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za44662144/What%27s+the+Matter+with+Kansas%3F The same thing that has been the matter with the whole country for quite some time. For example, allegedly Red State Kansas has recently passed a statewide ban on all smoking in private businesses. Today Democratic governor Mark Parkinson signed HB22 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za44662143/Gore%27s+Wishes+are+Your+Commands Guest Commentary by Edward Cline:Former Vice-President Al Gore, star of the pseudo-documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' which won an Oscar for best documentary feature and garnered him a Nobel Peace Prize shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44627100/Sesquicentennial+boards No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44588718/Col.+G.+F.+R.+Henderson+on+the+Civil+War We have had a lively discussion of my observations of the Civil War and landscape (comments welcome, as always), so I thought I’d take the opportunity to post some of the thoughts of Col. G.F.R. Henderson of the British Army, who wrote and lect http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44548604/The+Largest+Civil+War+Reenactment+on+the+Eastern+Seaboard+%28Outside+of+Getty I was recently contacted about helping to spread the word about the 21st Annual Civil War Reenactment at Neshaminy State Park in Bensalem, PA on May 1-2, 2010.   The proceeds from the event go to the Civil War Preservation Trust, making this a very http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za44483395/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 R http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44469611/Review%3A+Chicago%27s+Irish+Legion%3A+The+90th+Illinois+Volunteers+in+the+Civil+W Swan, James B. Chicago's Irish Legion: The 90th Illinois Volunteers in the Civil War. Southern Illinois University Press (2009). 306 pages, roster, notes, maps, bibliography, index. ISBN: 978-0-8093-2890-1 $32.95 (Hardcover). What was life like for w http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za44443949/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 th http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za44437208/Congress%3A+Deconstructing+America+Piece+by+Piece Currently, Nancy Pelosi and her gang are working overtime to impose their socialist medicine scheme onto an unwilling nation. Recently, they have also demonstrated their contempt for American and Western Civilization by having an Israeli hating, Isla http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44436421/The+case+against+comments+%28cont.%29 No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44393052/Beyond+the+Crater+Petersburg+Campaign+Progress+Report%3A+3+08+2010 BTC Petersburg Campaign progress reports are a way to keep readers informed about new changes to my Petersburg Campaign web site, especially new pages to explore which do not show up in the RSS Feed.  Look for these reports about once a month, somet http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44360418/Old+Baldy%27s+restingplace No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44360420/It+isn%27t+their+music No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44360419/Ken+Burns No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8692za44322820/No+Title ANSWERS to Google Earth Quiz No. 3. . .Here are the ANSWERS to the latest Google Earth quiz. If you want to take the quiz FIRST, then click here and start identifying the photographs. Otherwise, this post will spoil it for you. Congratulations to L http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44317914/March+2010+Civil+War+Book+Notes Those that can't write, Review! March 2010 James Durney *********************************************************** Excellent Reads! March 1865 saw Sherman's army fight a number of small battles that while doing little to change the situation are int http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za44205668/Not+Wrong%2C+Evil The haters of human life and prosperity - who have made academia their GHQ - have a plan to destroy the American economy. They claim the need to kill the energy and transportation industries is made necessary by their global warming climate change ju http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44203043/Battle+Ranges The range at which an enemy soldier can be engaged on the battlefield is a factor that has occupied both soldiers and pundits since the invention of firearms. In Civil War circles much of the recent controversy has centered around Paddy Griffith&#821 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za44169754/Worlds+On+Fire Worlds A and B, to be exact. It is March, but March of 2021, not 2010.  Crises have broken out around the globe. In Africa, a major war involving US forces appears imminent. In the Near East, an aggressive nation makes its bid for regional hegemony. http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za44140296/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 Statio http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za44133835/Our+Paragons+of+Legislation Guest Commentary by Edward Cline:Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses,Blow the trumpets, bang the brasses,Tantantara! Tzing, boom!We are the peers of the highest station,Paragons of legislation,Pillars of the Briti http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8686za44091651/The+Amsterdam+ship+Haerlem+in+1631 No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44054598/Last+train+from+pop+historyville No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44054597/Mmmmm No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za44054596/Pop+historians No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44052191/Short+Takes Will Ronald Reagan replace US Grant on the fifty dollar bill? A US Representative right here in NC, Patrick McHenry, thinks so: “Every generation needs its own heroes,' McHenry said in a written statement. 'One decade into the 21st century, it http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za44009122/Review%3A+Blue+and+Gray+Diplomacy%3A+A+History+of+Union+and+Confederate+Foreign Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations (The Littlefield History of the Civil War Era) by Howard Jones Product Details Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (December 18, 20 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za43983587/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 H http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za43937360/Ways+Out+of+War Military historians tend to assume that war is transhistorical — that as the Bible says, there will always be wars and rumors of wars.  But the Bible assumed that there would always be slavery as well, and that turns out not to have been the c http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za43936507/Virginia%27s+Sesquicentennial No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43897275/Lincoln+and+Stanton Two men could not have been more different than Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton. Lincoln had a broad vision, a humane disposition and a folksy way of expressing himself. He could be flexible, was not terribly good at particulars, and could ignore a http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za43861937/Another+bad+sign+for+heritage+tourism No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43857522/The+Civil+War+145+Years+Ago%3A+March+1865 145 Years Ago March 1865 by James W. Durney The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac continue the siege at Petersburg.  Sherman's army is advancing in South Carolina. On March 2, at Waynesboro, George Custer takes 1,600 prisoners, http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za43834846/Yesterday%27s+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 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8686za43788505/A+ship+of+interest+from+David+de+Wildt%27s+list+from+22+February+1652 No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za43769214/Defense+Department+Releases+Official+Policy+on+Social+Media Announcement on the U.S. Department of Defense web site, February 26: The Department of Defense released its official policy on new/social media today.  The policy (Directive-Type Memorandum 09-026), which is effective immediately, states that t http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43766438/BTC%3A+How+to+Find+a+Specific+Page+of+a+Primary+Source Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online and has been crossposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. Since I first started Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online, I&#8217 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za43709629/In+Memoriam%3A++George+S.+Pappas+%281919-2010%29 An appreciation by Richard J. Sommers, Ph.D., Senior Historian, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center,  the last charter member hired by Col. Pappas (1970) still working at AHEC. Retired Col. George S. Pappas, the founder of the U.S. Army Militar http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za43674202/What%27s+on+at+the+ALPLM No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za43674201/Clausewitzian+insight No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43671557/Combat+Trash+Talkin%27 I found this amusing, from Afghanistan, about the verbal war between the Afghan Army and the Taliban. The foes chatter with each other over their Vietnam-era, two-way radio system. It’s such an antiquated system that the Taliban and the Afghan http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za43635222/Society+for+Military+History+Update By Ethan S. Rafuse; cross posted from Civil Warriors The program for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, which is being held on 20-23 May in Lexington, Virginia, and sponsored by the Virginia Military Institute, has recently http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43630271/Nafziger+Collection+of+Civil+War+%28and+other%29+Orders+of+Battle+Now+FREE+Onli UPDATE 2: Kathy Buker pointed out in the comments below that the official URL for the Nafziger collection is: http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger.htm UPDATE: I’ve finally managed to download all of the OOB files via a script provided by a friend http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za43604804/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 Historica http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za43598458/Why+the+Civil+Rights+Movement+Was+an+Insurgency This article appears in the current issue of MHQ [Military History Quarterly].  It’s also available online. In 1962 David Galula, a cerebral-looking French lieutenant colonel, arrived at Harvard University’s Center for International Affa http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43595455/150th+Anniversary+of+Abraham+Lincoln%27s+Cooper+Union+Address I received an email from Timothy Wroten of The New-York Historical Society concerning the upcoming museum exhibit on Abraham Lincoln’s famous 1860 Cooper Union speech.  In his speech, Lincoln covered the topic of slavery and how to deal with t http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43552583/Review%3A+Seeding+Civil+War%3A+Kansas+in+the+National+News%2C+1854-1858 Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858 by Craig Miner Product Details Hardcover: 305 pages Publisher: University Press of Kansas (September 3, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0700616128 ISBN-13: 978-0700616121 'Bleeding Kan http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za43480009/Islam+is+the+Enemy Guest Commentary by Edward Cline:I read an interesting Spiked column on the current 'offensive' in Afghanistan. The author makes several valid points. He all but says that if the war is fought, not to achieve victory, but to attain some altruistic 'h http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43475189/New+Primary+Source%3A+Battles+and+Leaders+of+the+Civil+War Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Beyond the Crater and has been reposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog. I’ve added a new Battles and Leaders section under the Resources tab in the top menu of Beyond the Crater. F http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43399257/Review%3A+Virginia+at+War%2C+1863 Davis, William C. & Robertson, Jr., James I. (editors). Virginia at War, 1863 (2008). 232 pages, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2510-7 $35.00 (Hardcover). Virginia at War, 1863 is the third entry in a series of five essay books on Virginia http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za43376016/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 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za43372658/Discussing+the+ACW+with+Carl+von+Clausewitz No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za43334292/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 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8686za43329995/Dutch+fleet+lists+in+the+First+Anglo-Dutch+War No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43329735/Army+of+the+Potomac+Ordnance+at+the+Battle+of+Fredericksburg I was browsing the web for Quarterly Ordnance Returns (i.e. the type and number of weapons each unit had at a given time) for the Army of the Potomac. I found a gem at the Fredericksburg National Battlefield site. Historian Eric Mink apparently tra http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za43289330/The+Rant+Heard+Around+the+World Rick Santelli one year ago today. Time for another Tea Party. http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za43258613/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’ http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za43222579/Michael+Aubrecht%27s+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&#8217 http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za43217510/Lincoln+Prize+accidentally+awarded+to+Lincoln+scholar No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za43217511/Agoraphobia No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43212513/Missouri+Libraries+and+Civil+War+Digitization+Projects A recent blog entry at the MoGSA Messenger, the Official Weblog of the Missouri State Genealogical Association discusses Civil War digitization projects at the Kansas City Public Library and the Springfield-Greene County Library District.  While the http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8692za43178398/No+Title Google Earth Quiz Number ThreeFaithful readers of this blog'and I do you mean you, Luke'will recall the first two Google Earth quizes I offered up as a little diversion for you geography lovers. Quiz One can be seen here. Here are the answers to that http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8692za43178397/No+Title It's not too late to join us in the Big Easy for the 14th Annual Civil War Forum Battlefield Conference, April 15-18, 2010.This year we're enjoying a rare urban sojourn, but will get our fill of the Civil War nonetheless, not to mention our fill of s http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43172332/Secession+%28again%29 Secession again rears its ugly head, this time on The Volokh Conspiracy. Professor Eugene Volokh opines 'I keep hearing the claim that the legitimacy of secession from the U.S. was 'settled at Appomattox,' and I wanted to say a few words about why I http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8692za43102335/No+Title Here's another enticing sale from another venerable university press with a first-class Civil War list. I can think of half a dozen IU Press titles off the top of my head that will be welcome on your bookshelf, if you don't have them already (don't f http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43095708/Massive+60%25+Off+Book+Sale+at+Indiana+University+Press+Today Fellow TOCWOC blogger Fred Ray mentioned a few weeks ago that Indiana University Press would be having a 60% off sale for one day only.  TODAY is that day!  So make sure you head over to the Indiana University Press site and enter the code SIXTY at http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za43020900/The+Impact+of+Railroads+on+Warfare+During+the+American+Civil+War Editor’s Note: Dave Hollis is a guest poster with an avid interest in military history.  He is a member of the the U.S. Army Reserve and has been published several times.  Dave’s first (but hopefully not last) post here at TOCWOC concer http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za42994186/Allen+West+Nails+It Col. West speaks rather clearly and plainly, unusually so actually, on the bare bones facts of Islam now and from the beginning. West begins his comment at about 1:40 into the following video:'The first thing you gotta do is study and understand who http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42989593/Complete+Online+Index+of+Civil+War+Times+%28Illustrated%29 I learned this morning via a tweet from Andrew Ferguson that a complete index of Civil War Times, something I had slowly been working on with little progress, is now online!  I’m a little busy today, but I plan to spend some time with this ove http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42956865/Review%3A+Entrepot%3A+Government+Imports+into+the+Confederate+States Entrepot: Government Imports into the Confederate States by C. L. Webster III Product Details Paperback: 396 pages Publisher: Edinborough Press (October 1, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1889020370 ISBN-13: 978-1889020372 They say military p http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za42933472/Defending+Ayn+Rand Guest Commentary by Edward ClineAn interesting and important cultural development -- in the way of two critical skirmishes in the conflict between Objectivism and its mainstream critics, left, right, and fringe -- was the Objectivist and general read http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za42933471/Phil+Jones%3A+There+Has+Been+No+Global+Warming+in+the+Last+Fifteen+Years I don't expect the left who are imposing a Green Police upon America to admit the truth. Academics especially will continue to drink the Kool-Aid long after everyone else has left the party. To quote Orwell: 'Liberal: a power worshiper without power. http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42870921/%27A+House+Divided%27 Scott Johnson of Powerline blog has a post commemorating the birth of Abraham Lincoln today. He quotes Lincoln's famous 1858 'house divided' speech, calling it 'one of the most incendiary speeches in American history;' one that propelled the prairie http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42846180/Beyond+the+Crater%3A+Petersburg+Campaign+Progress+Report%3A+2+12+2010 Editor’s Note: This post has been crossposted here at TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog.  It originally appeared at Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online. When I first created Beyond the Crater: The Petersburg Campaign Online I fully http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za42740831/Naming+the+War Like many military historians I get calls from journalists wanting my opinion about something have to do with past wars, current national security issues, and (ever since John J. Miller’s “Sounding Taps” essay) the state of academic http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42702193/Review%3A+No+Prouder+Fate%3A+The+Story+of+the+11th+South+Carolina+Volunteer+Inf This is the first review for the second release of titles in the South Carolina Regimental-Roster Set series from Broadfoot Publishing Company.  A significant portion of each review will show you how this particular volume compared to the others in http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42662821/Sad+News+About+Art+Bergeron I learned the sad news this evening from Drew and Harry that Art Bergeron passed away yesterday.  Art was an authority on the Civil War in Louisiana, was very kind to me personally the few times we communicated via email, and will be sorely missed b http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42662822/Consequences+of+the+Kilpatrick-Dahlgren+Raid What were the consequences of the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid? In operational terms, not much. Casualties were minimal and the raid accomplished little. The indirect consequences, however, were important. For one, it convinced the Confederates to streng http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za42662605/Sarge+Schools+Prof.+Gomer+Pyle http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za42628969/Author+of+%27Nazi+Propaganda+for+the+Arab+World%27+Interviewed Al-Masry: You mention that the most important figure used by the Nazis in the region was Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1921 to 1948. Al-Husseini struggled against the English occupation and Zionism in Palestine long before going http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8688za42625884/Commemorate+on%21 No Abstract http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42557953/Review%3A+Fields+of+Glory Fields of Glory: A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West, the Atlanta Campaign, 1864,  Second Edition By Jim Miles It can be fun traveling in the footsteps of history.  In fact there has been a recent upswing in 'Heritage Tourism,' and with http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42519786/The+Civil+War+145+Years+Ago%3A+February+1865 145 Years Ago February 1865 By James W. Durney Illinois becomes the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery on the first. Sherman's army of 62,000 starts north from Savannah.  O.O. Howard and Henry W. Slocum command a wing.  http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za42518543/The+Renewed+War+Against+Freedom+of+Speech Guest Commentary by Edward Cline:No sooner had the Supreme Court upheld the right of corporations to exercise their freedom of speech, than the ruling was attacked, first by newspapers, pundits, and finally by President Barack Obama in his State of t http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42473209/Buy+Some+Civil+War+Magazines+For+a+Good+Cause I recently received an email from Anita Collins, whose daughter is in a New Jersey Girl Scout Troup.  The girls received a large collection of Civil War magazines that they had planned to donate to a local nursing home, but the nursing home already http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8685za42473208/Leading+the+Kilpatrick-Dahlgren+Raid+%28not+just+anyone+will+do%29 Eric Wittenberg scored a coup in Like A Meteor Blazing Brightly by finding a letter from former Confederate John Mosby about meeting Col. Isaac Wistar after the war. Wistar confirmed to Mosby the truth of the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren’s raid's purpos http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8693za42458143/John+Singleton+Mosby+and+the+Battle+of+Brandy+Station Loyal reader Valerie Protopapas is also the newsletter editor for the Stuart-Mosby Historical Society. Although I am not a member of the Society, I have given the address on the anniversary of Jeb Stuart’s birth. Valerie is kind enough to mak http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8687za42454621/What+If+the+Allies+Had+Bombed+Auschwitz%3F Reprinted with permission of World War II Magazine It is a hot August afternoon in 1944. The scene is Birkenau, that portion of the vast Auschwitz concentration camp dedicated to the industrialized killing of Europeans the Nazis regard as unworthy of http://hdlns.com/g1180zf8695za42451669/More+Global+Warming+for+the+Swell+Politicians+of+Washington This storm couldn't have been better timed. From the 'weather is not climate' file:There was a small fender bender on the White House south lawn and then a tree branch, overcome with snow, cracked and fell on a motorcade vehicle with press inside whe