Friday, January 26, 2024

An Ornament To His Country

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 Finally a work that has been in progress since early 2017 is completed and in print.  "An Ornament to His Country" is a 346 page ...
Friday, March 3, 2023

The Cast Iron Brigade Preserves Historic Tablets at Antietam National Battlefield

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 On August 30, 1890, almost twenty-eight years after the bloody Battle of Antietam the United States Congress appropriated money for “survey...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

MOH Awarded for Sinking CSS Albemarle: Part II

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Abandoning Picket Boat No. 1 (US Naval Historical Center (NH 4222)) Edward J. Houghton Edward J. Houghton, an ordinary seaman on the Chicope...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Medals of Honor Awarded for Sinking CSS Albemarle

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Picket Boat No. 1 (US Naval History Center photo  NH 63378 )   Lieutenant William Barker Cushing received the thanks of the Navy Department ...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

"A More Gallant Thing Was Not Done During The War": Lt. William B. Cushing and the Sinking of the CSS Albemarle

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William  Barker Cushing (The New York Public Library photo*)  Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, October 30, 1864 Sir:  "I have the honor...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Uncle Tommy Devin: The Saga of a Commander of Cavalry

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  Brevet Major General Thomas Casimer Devin stands out as one of the most capable Union cavalry commanders in the American Civil War even wh...
Monday, September 14, 2020

A Valiant Coup: Colonel B F. Davis and the Exodus of the Union Cavalry From Harpers Ferry

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In the book " The United States Cavalry: An Illustrated History, 1776-1944, Gregory Irwin wrote: "Davis's Valiant Coup compar...