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October 20, 2014
150 Years Ago: Cedar Creek
Originally posted on Regular Cavalry in the Civil War:
150 years ago today, the battle of Cedar Creek was fought. The previous month’s defeat had all but ended the campaign the month before, but Confederate general Jubal Early cast one last throw of the dice to try to destroy Sheridan’s army.
I have decided to include two versions of the regular cavalry’s piece of the battle. The first and most direct, is an excerpt from the official report of the Reserve Brigade commander, Lieutenant Colonel...
1864 October 15: Treason in Indiana���The Trial of H. H. Dodd
Originally posted on The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin:
Harrison Horton Dodd (1824-1906) was a founder of the Order of Sons of Liberty (OSL), a paramilitary secret society that was a continuation and/or extension of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC).�� The basic goal of the organization was to thwart the war efforts of the Union while still remaining citizens of the United States.�� By all accounts Dodd was the most important Copperhead in Indianapolis.
On August 20, 1864, Dodd���s In...
1864 October 15: Treason in Indiana—The Trial of H. H. Dodd
Originally posted on The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin:
Harrison Horton Dodd (1824-1906) was a founder of the Order of Sons of Liberty (OSL), a paramilitary secret society that was a continuation and/or extension of the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC). The basic goal of the organization was to thwart the war efforts of the Union while still remaining citizens of the United States. By all accounts Dodd was the most important Copperhead in Indianapolis.
On August 20, 1864, Dodd’s Indianap...
The sunken silos of Birzebbuga
Originally posted on The Malta Photoblog:
The sunken silos of Birzebbuga
At the very entrance of the village of Birzebbuga, at the extreme south-east of Malta, lies the small but important prehistoric site of Borg in-Nadur. The site, which lies a few hundred metres away from the better known Ghar Dalam cave, started life as a late Tarxien-phase megalithic temple but was eventually occupied by Bronze-Age settlers who developed a major village complete with a still-surviving defensive wall which...
Meir ny Foawr, Knocksharry, Isle of Man
Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:
Os grid reference: SC 2758 8495. The prehistoricsite of Meir ny Foawr, near Knocksharry, at the far western-side of the Isleof Man,is a former Bronze-Age stone circle – however not much of it has survived – and some of its quartz boulders may have been robbed away over the centuries. This collection of boulders in a sort of part circle is located on the side of the hill called Lhergy Dhoo Uplands and is nearly half a mile south-east of Lhergydh...
A history of the First World War in one hundred blogs ! No. 9 The Siege of the Li��ge Forts.
Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:
(The ruins of Fort Loncin in this German propaganda postcard.)
The beginning of August 1914 on the Western Front saw the great German march begin, when the German Fourth Army violated the neutrality of tiny Luxembourg, in an attempt to secure important railways needed to complete its war mobilization plans. Across the border, Belgium suspected that they were next. Ahead of Germany���s invasion into Belgium, the Belgian army systemati...
A history of the First World War in one hundred blogs ! No. 9 The Siege of the Liège Forts.
Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:
(The ruins of Fort Loncin in this German propaganda postcard.)
The beginning of August 1914 on the Western Front saw the great German march begin, when the German Fourth Army violated the neutrality of tiny Luxembourg, in an attempt to secure important railways needed to complete its war mobilization plans. Across the border, Belgium suspected that they were next. Ahead of Germany’s invasion into Belgium, the Belgian army systematica...
Captain Charles Stillman Ilsley, Commander, E Troop and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry
Originally posted on Army at Wounded Knee:
I might say, in the general rush of the bucks, it was impossible for the men to distinguish the bucks from the squaws.
Captain Charles S. Ilsley, Commander, E Troop and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, at Pine Ridge Agency, 16 Jan. 1891. Cropped from John C. H. Grabill’s photograph, “The Fighting 7th Officers.”
Captain Charles S. Ilsley, at fifty-three years of age, was themost senior and one of the two oldest of the captains in the 7th Cavalry. He had been...
October 16, 2014
Largest Abandoned Factory in the World: The Packard Factory, Detroit
Originally posted on Sometimes Interesting:
Packard was once a premier nameplate in the United States, mentioned in the same breath as Duesenberg, Cadillac, Pierce-Arrow, and Lincoln. The crown jewel for Packard was the Packard Factory, a 3.5 million square-foot complex sprawling across 35 acres.
In the years following World War II, the Packard Motor Car Company struggled to keep pace with the larger automakers that had been buying-up the smaller companies to form “the Big Three.” Those not pa...
October 13, 2014
Isabel Irving: American Stage Actress
Love the history of film and the stage. Awesome pictures
Originally posted on THE CABINET CARD GALLERY:
Isabel Irving (1871-1944) was an American actress born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her stage career began in 1886. She performed in many performances of Shakespeare. She was also in more than 30 Broadway plays between 1894 and 1936. These plays included “Merry Wives of Windsor” (1917) and “Uncle Vanya” (1930). The first cabinet photo was done at the studio of Napoleon Sarony in N...
