An interesting book on the Battle of Gettysburg, written for young people, is The Long Road to Gettysburg, by Jim Murphy, published by Scholastic in 1992. The book is based on two diaries, one John Dooley, a Confederate soldier, who after the war entered a Jesuit order, and the other by Thomas Francis Galway, a […]
In a 1996 book, Lost Films: Important Movies That Have Disappeared, Frank Thompson, describes the preservation problem of old films, particularly those made during the silent film era (about 1893-1930) – films that were made on nitrocellulose stock, which, if not stored in the most perfect conditions, is known to deteriorate rapidly into a “bubbling […]
A listing of the January 2013 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Looking Ahead in the New Year, 2013 Mahlon Shaaber – Tallest Soldier of the Civil War White House of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia John Arnts – Father of Gratz Creamery Owner December 2012 Posts The Gettysburg Address Blog Review: The […]
The most impressive shrine to our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, is located in Washington, D.C., at the end of the mall on ground that once was a swamp. Thousands of tourists stop at the monument each day, climb its steps and take photographs of the large statute of Lincoln, his words from two of his […]
The Halifax area of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, consists of the area within the angle (“C’) of the triangular area of study for this Civil War Research Project (see portion of map below). Essentially, everything south of Millersburg (upper left on the insert map) and Elizabethville (upper right on the insert map) could be considered part […]
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