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Manassas NBP 11/5/2010: Sudley Springs, Sudley Road, Thornberry House, Ballou
This past Friday (11/5) I made a quick trip to the Manassas National Battlefield Park to do some research for an upcoming installment of Collateral Damage. I met up with Ranger Jim Burgess and he...
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Civil War Times February 2011
Inside this issue: Letters Ethan Rafuse and Ron Baumgarten each wrote in to comment on the Bonekemper McClellan article from the December 2010 issue. For an expansion on Rafuse’s letter, see here....
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Collateral Damage: Call for Subjects
As I may or may not have mentioned earlier, my Collateral Damage column has been picked up for another year with Civil War Times magazine. I’m really happy that editor Dana Shoaf decided to run with an...
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The Jacob Weikert Farm
The February 2011 edition of Civil War Times magazine (previewed here) includes my Collateral Damage article on the Jacob Weikert farm south of Gettysburg, just outside the park boundaries on the...
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Civil War Times April 2011
Inside this issue: Letters: Ron Soodalter disagrees with Stephen Budiansky’s take on George Custer Blue & Gray Gary Gallagher looks at The War’s Overlooked Turning Points and argues for the...
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The Bensons of Sudley Church
An edited version of this story ran in the April 2011 issue of Civil War Times. I’m running it here with additional photos with permission of the publisher. It is titled as it appears in the...
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Civil War Times June 2011
Inside this issue: Letters: Correction of tables that were erroneously flipped in Edward Bonekemper’s article on U. S. Grant in the April 2011 issue. Gregg Biggs disputes Gary Gallagher’s thesis on the...
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Hittin’ the Road…
…to our nation’s capital – and Capitol. In a few hours I’m heading to Washington, DC where I’ll be presenting my program on Peter Hains to the Capitol Hill Civil War Roundtable. Tomorrow I plan on...
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Civil War Times August 2011
Inside this issue: Inside cover – a picture of John David Hoptak’s great big giant head. Letters: Praise and criticism of Kim O’Connell’s photo-essay of monuments at Gettysburg in the June 2011 issue....
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Doors Are Closing and Opening All the Time
It is my sad duty to inform you of the demise of Collateral Damage, my regular column in Civil War Times. Stonewall’s Winchester Headquarters, a story on the Lewis T. Moore house in the just shipped...
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Wilderness – A Tale of Two Permelias
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Wilderness and The Overland Campaign, here’s the original version of my Collateral Damage article that ran in the August, 2011 edition of Civil...
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The Roulette Farm, Antietam National Battlefield
The below article was published in Civil War Times magazine back in 2010 as an installment of my In Harm’s Way/Collateral Damage column. Since the 152nd anniversary of the battle just passed, here’s...
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Chickamauga’s Snodgrass Cabin
With the passing of the anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga, here’s my In Harm’s Way/Collateral Damage article on the Snodgrass Cabin, which ran in Civil War Times magazine in 2010. This is the...
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On the Anniversary of the Surrender at Bennett Place
This article ran in my Collateral Damage column in Civil War Times back in December, 2010, as Bennett Place, Where the War Really Ended. Click on the thumbnails for larger images I recorded over the...
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Henry P. Bottom House, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site
In recognition of yesterday’s 154th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville, here is the unedited version of my Collateral Damage article which ran in the June, 2011 edition of Civil War Times...
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L. T. Moore House, Winchester Virginia
The following article, edited, appeared as the final installment of my Collateral Damage/In Harm’s Way column in Civil War Times, back in 2011. I post it upon receiving news of the passing today of...
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[A shortened version of this article ran in the February, 2011 issue of Civil War Times Illustrated. I wrote about it back then here. In that post you can see some photos of the farm and farmhouse.]...
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An edited version of this article appeared as the first of a series I wrote for Civil War Times magazine, beginning in the June 2010 issue. The column was first called In Harm’s Way, and later as...
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