Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 44
March 20, 2017
Montgomery Meigs: Civil War Quartermaster
Brigadier General Montgomery C. Meigs
The United States Army in April, 1861
On the eve of the Civil War, the regular United States Army consisted of 16,000 soldiers, most of which were deployed out west. Other than maintaining the always-touchy peace with the native tribes, there was little need for armed forces. The 1100 officers were, for the most part, West Point graduates, either fulfilling their obligations or pursuing a career.
The Quartermaster Department w...
March 19, 2017
The Struggles of Alice
History... the interesting bits!
The bailey of Tickhill Castle, South Yorkshire
Alice, Countess of Eu, was born into 2 of the noblest families of England and France, and married into a 3rd. The daughter of Henry, Count of Eu and Lord Hastings, her mother was Matilda, daughter of Hamelin and Isabel de Warenne, Earl and Countess of Surrey.
Through her maternal grandparents, Alice was closely related to the kings of England. Her grandfather, Hamelin, was the illegitimate half-brother of King...
March 16, 2017
Track of the Day – THE WANTON BISHOPS ‘Sailing Down’
Today’s track of the day is the beautiful and bluesy ‘Sailing Down’ by The Wanton Bishops. The track is taken from the band’s latest release ‘Nowhere Everywhere’. The EP is available right now:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/NowhereEverywhere-IT Amazon: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEamz Google Play: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEgp Spotify: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEsp Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEapThe Wanton Bishops is on tour right now through April:
The Wanton Bishops...
Track of the Day – THE WANTON BISHOPS ‘Sailing Down’
Today’s track of the day is the beautiful and bluesy ‘Sailing Down’ by The Wanton Bishops. The track is taken from the band’s latest release ‘Nowhere Everywhere’. The EP is available right now:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/NowhereEverywhere-IT Amazon: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEamz Google Play: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEgp Spotify: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEsp Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/TWB-NEapThe Wanton Bishops is on tour right now through April:
The Wanton Bishops...
A Tudor House in Salem
How did I miss it? Here I am, a sixteenth-century English historian living in Salem, and I never knew about a reproduction sixteenth-century house built right here in 1927 by a mason named James H. Boulger. I’ve posted on “English” houses in Salem before, and often lamented the lack of Tudors in town, all the while blind to the existence of this interesting little house in South Salem. While I was researching the “Electrical Home” in this same neighborhood (with streets named...
March 14, 2017
Winston Churchill Biography Prime Minister (1874–1965)…
As prime minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Winston Churchill rallied the British people during WWII, and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory.
SynopsisBorn to an aristocratic family in 1874, Winston Churchill served in the British military and worked as a writer before going into politics. After becoming prime minister in 1940, he helped lead a successful Allied strategy with the U.S. and Soviet Union during WWII to defeat the Axis powers and craft post-war peace....
The Abbey of Fontevrault
Robert d’Arbrissel
Robert d’Arbrissel, Archpriest of the Rennes Diocese, carried out reforms on behalf of his bishop, until his death in 1095. Hostility erupted following the bishop’s death, amongst the local clergy, forcing the Diocese to step in and remove Arbrissel from his position.
Arbrissel became a hermit, practicing a life of penance in Craon forest.
In 1096 he founded a monastery of Canons at LaRoe, with himself as the first Abbot.
Pope Urban II summoned...
March 13, 2017
The Mystery of ‘The Fortune Teller’ by Georges de la Tour
On the 13th of March 1593, the French Baroque painter Georges de la Tour was born in the town of Vic-sur-Seuille, a few miles from Nancy, France. In 1620, when he was already a practicing painter, he moved to Lunéville, Lorraine, an independent duchy between north-east France and the German states. That is where he established himself as a master artist and stayed until his death in 1652. Until 1915, when Hermann Voss practically rescued him from oblivion, La Tour’s life and oeuv...
