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Category: Civil War History

  • The Telegraph in the US Civil War

    Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph made an interesting discovery in 1844. When he was trying to lay his first telegraph line from Washington DC to Baltimore Maryland he tried to lay the wire inside of a pipe. During the construction process it appears that they got some bad wire. Morse was →

  • The Saga of Lieutenant Lancaster – Part Four

    To My Readers: This is a conclusion of a short story taken from  one of my unpublished works, “The Second Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 1861-1865. I am going to serialize the story over a four day period. I hope that you’ll enjoy these posts in my blog.   Part Four The Saga of Lieutenant →

  • “The Most Hated Man in Clarksburg”; historical Civil War fiction

    So how could someone be called or become the most hated man in a small town like Clarksburg Virginia? What could cause a man from Philadelphia, a doctor, a newspaper editor, and a friend of Abraham Lincoln to be so reviled in a small town? The answer to this question is to be found in →

  • The Civil War in My Hometown

    My recent blogs have dealt with some Vietnam War stories from my first book in the Advisor series, “The Advisor; Kien Bing, South Vietnam 1969-1970”,  (available on Amazon.com). What I’ve tried to do is to expand upon what I’ve written in my novel about my time in Vietnam during my first assignment there. For someone →