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What Jake’s Reading: March 2013

| March 25, 2013

Trying to find time to read these days has been difficult. Between volunteering, schoolwork, my internship and research, it’s been a pretty tight squeeze of late. Yet, the Civil War and related subjects seem to have taken up most of my time, much to the irritation of those around me. I finished Tony Horwitz’s marquee […]

Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield – Battery 9

| March 24, 2013

Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred.  All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield.  […]

Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield – Battery 8

| March 23, 2013

Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred.  All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the Petersburg National […]

Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield – Battery 5 and the Dictator

| March 22, 2013

Today’s blog post continues a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman.  All parts of the series can be accessed by clicking on the series title here, Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield.  […]

Touring the Petersburg National Battlefield – The Visitor Center

| March 21, 2013

Today’s blog post begins a multi-part series on the Petersburg National Battlefield – that portion of the battlefield which made up the Eastern Front, where the opening assaults and the Battles of the Crater and Fort Stedman occurred.  Recent photographs taken at the battlefield are interspersed with the official, interpretative statements made at the various […]