Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 170
September 23, 2014
The Roulette Farm, Antietam National Battlefield
Originally posted on Bull Runnings:
The below article was published in Civil War Times magazine back in 2010 as an installment of my In Harm’s Way/Collateral Damage column. Since the 152nd anniversary of the battle just passed, here’s the article as submitted (some changes were made to the final product.) See my photo gallery of the farmhere.
When he realized that the men streaming past his home were Union soldiers and not the Confederates who had been in the fields the past two days, William...
September 22, 2014
The Three Major Inventions of Garfield’s Assassination
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
The Industrial Age was at its height when Garfield was assassinated in 1881. Inventive minds were at work!
The President Is Shot
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington, where Garfield was shot.
President James A. Garfield (1831-1881) was a robust, athletic man of forty-nine when an assassin pumped two bullets into him. One grazed his arm, doing minimal damage. The other went into his side. X-rays were still in the distant future,...
Witnesses to History: A Memento of a Missing Man
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
The Witnesses to History series aims to connect an object or document which still exists today with the story of the people behind the item. Following the first post, which featured the 170th New York Bounty List, I was contacted by reader Cathy Nicholls in England. Some 40 years ago in Brooklyn, Cathy had purchased a most beautiful bone object which referenced a soldier of the Irish Brigade, William Higgins. Cathy had never been able to f...
1864 September 17: General Grant—“All we want now, to ensure the early restoration of the Union, is a determination on the part of the North, and unity of sentiment in the North”
Originally posted on The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin:
The following article is from the September 17, 1864 issue ofThe Prescott Journal. It also appeared in the The Polk County Press issue of September 17, 1864, under the heading of “Letter From Gen. Grant.”
GEN. GRANT’S VIEWS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.
The following extract from a letter [telegram in the Journal] from Lieut. Gen. Grant [Ulysses S. Grant], dated Headquarters, City Point, Va., Sept. 6.“
Hon. E. B. Washburne¹ :
DEAR SIR—I would st...
September 19, 2014
Want to Reach New Heights as a Writer? Learn to QUIT
Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
Image vis Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of Yuya Sekiguchi.
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month—November) is just around the corner. Many new writers take this as an opportunity to test if they can do this professional writing thing “fer realz.” Some of us dust off an old story and see if we can toss it in the crucible of peer pressure and FINALLY finish. This is a good plan…most of the time.
We have to be careful. Never giving up might keep us f...
September 15, 2014
Mary Lincoln: The Tragedy of Time
Great post
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
A thought.
Mary spent seventeen years as the Widow Lincoln.
Mary Lincoln: Choices of Tragedy
Millions of words have been spent on Mary Lincoln, her various tragedies, her various ailments and the peculiarities of her personality and disposition in general.
Mary Lincoln was 46 years old when she became a widow.
Many Mary biographers have focused on her losses. She lost her mother when she was only six. But that was in 1825. Thousa...
The Pope’s Irish Soldiers and the Civil War
Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:
The main function of this site is to provide a resource for those interested in the Irish experience of the American Civil War. It is hoped that this will include a number of contributions by researchers in the area, and to that end the second guest post on the blog examines those Irish veterans of the Papal Army who fought in the American Civil War. It has been written by Robert Doyle who runs the excellent Myles Walter Keogh- Three Wars;...
1864 September 10: Editorial Against the St. Paul Pioneer as Copperheadish
Originally posted on The Civil War and Northwest Wisconsin:
The following articles are from the September 10, 1864, issue of The Prescott Journal.
The St. Paul Pioneer for about two years past has seemed to have two political editors. One, a loyal man, generally kept the paper true to the support of the Government, but occasionally he would be away a day or two, and the other, a copperhead, would get in some copperhead editorial. Now the loyal editor seems to have gone away altogether, and th...
September 8, 2014
Jeanne de Valois, Queen of France and Duchess of Berri
Originally posted on The Freelance History Writer:
Jeanne de Valois
Jeanne de Valois was the daughter, sister, and wife of kings. She was born with disabilities and suffered through a miserable marriage. In the end she became devoted to and died in a religious life, eventually becoming a saint.
Jeanne was known as Jeanne de France, Jeanne de Valois and Joan de France. She was born on April 23, 1464, the second daughter of King Louis XI, the Spider King and his second wife Charlotte of Savoy. Wh...
Elliott Roosevelt: Theodore���s Brother, Eleanor���s Father
Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:
Elliott Roosevelt is a sad footnote in history. His brother and his daughter are immortal.
TR���s Younger Brother
Elliott Roosevelt (1860-1894) was less than two years younger than his brother Theodore, sandwiched between two sisters in a prominent and well-to-do New York family. Elliott adored his elder brother but was quickly overshadowed.
Theodore was a sickly, asthmatic boy, whose father spared no effort trying to bring him to health. Meanwhile...
