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In “Now the Drum of War,” Robert Roper makes two points about the poetry Walt Whitman wrote during and about the Civil War: first, that it was far from his best work; and second, that it ...
They did that on Sunday with Drums on the Penobscot: A Civil War Experience. "We're not here to glorify war," said Tim Perkins, Adjutant 6th Battalion Army Northern Virginia.
On the C-SPAN Networks: Drum Barracks Civil War Museum has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2011 Vignette. Most appearances with Susan Ogle (2).
It’s just a simple, forgotten Civil War artifact, an old drum sitting in the vault of the Citizens Bank in Middletown.But Monday, when it is returned to the family that believes a relative found ...
Pittsburgh-based author and scientist Clint B. Geller has written a fascinating new book on the heretofore rarely discussed subject of Civil War watches, clocks, and other timepieces.
Charles W. Mitchell, co-editor with historian Jean H. Baker of the new book, “The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered,” at his home in Parkton, Md., on Nov. 21.
Book Review: Sharpshooting in the Civil War by Mark A. Keefe, IV, Editorial Director posted on September 7, 2010 News, Reviews, Historical Rifles, Rifles Support NRA American Rifleman DONATE ...
The book takes its title-- Tremble For My Country --from the quote. People who think the Civil War was a sudden madness agitated by abolitionists and fire-eaters need to grapple with that quote.
Writing Home: Civil War Letters from the Hinchey Family Archive includes more than 60 letters written from 1861 to 1865 by soldiers J. Ansel Booth, George F. Happ and several others.