Day: September 18, 2005

A Melancholy Affair at the Weldon Railroad, The Vermont Brigade June 23, 1864 Civil War authors and historians generally paint with a broad brush. Multiple books are available, and more appear every day it seems, describing the great battles and campaigns of the war. Infantrymen, however, do not fight great battles. They slug it out […]

Drew Wagenhoffer had a piece on his blog this week about lawyers who write Civil War history. He had a list of us, myself included. Fortunately, most of us are well-respected names like Gordon Rhea, Kent Masterson Brown, Russel “Cap” Beatie, and the dean of all of us, Alan Nolan. It’s been my good fortune […]