-
Recent Posts
Archives
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- December 2016
- September 2016
- July 2016
- May 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- July 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
Categories
- "The Bloody Third" in East Tennessee
- 11th New York Fire Zouaves
- 12 th New York Regiment
- 1st Virginia Cavalry
- 20th Maine Infantry
- 41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry
- 4th Texas Infantry
- 7th New York Militia
- 7th New York Volunteer Infantry
- 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry
- Aaron Burr Conspiracy
- Abolitonism
- Abraham Lincoln
- Alexandria Virginia in the Civil War
- Ambrose Bierce
- Ambrose Bierce Book Reviewer
- American Listeners Theatre
- An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge
- Andrew Jackson
- Antietam
- April 14, Good Friday
- Assasinations
- Atlanta
- Azuma
- Babybird
- Battle of Franklin
- Battle of Lookout Mountain
- Battle of Missionary Ridge
- Battle of Nashville
- Battle of Resaca
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battle of Springhill
- Battle of Stone's River
- Battle of the Bands
- Battle of Wauhatchie Station
- Beauvoir
- Bierce on Miltary Genius
- Bivouac of the Dead
- Bloody Lane
- Brian C. Pohanka
- Brigadier General
- Burnside Bridge
- Carnton Cemetery
- Causes of the Civil War
- Charleston Church Shooting
- Chattanooga
- Cherokee Confederates
- Chickamauga
- Christmas
- Christmas 1861
- Christmas 1862
- Christmas 1863
- Christmas 1865
- Christmas during the Civil War
- Civil Rights
- Civil War at Sea
- Civil War Christmas
- Civil War ghosts
- Civil War Historians
- Civil War History
- Civil War in East Tennessee
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War on film
- Civil War Spies
- Col. John Singleton Moseby
- Colonel Elmer Ellsworth
- Colonel Joshua Chamberlain
- Colonel Kase
- Confederate Flag as symbol
- Confederate Navy
- CSS Shenandoah
- CSS Stonewall
- Don Troiani
- Drug and Alcohol Use in the Civil War\
- Drunkeness in Battle
- Dunker Church
- Easter
- Espionage
- Farnsworth House
- Flag Controversy
- Fort Donelson
- Fort Henry
- Fort Monroe
- Fort Negley
- Forts Donelson and Henry
- General Braxton Bragg
- General George Thomas
- General Hooker
- General John Bell Hood
- General John Gordon CSA
- General John Turchin
- General Lewis Wallace
- General McClellan
- General Oliver O. Howard
- General W. H. L . Wallace
- General William B. Hazen
- General William Rosecrans
- George Washington
- Gettysburg
- Gettysburg Ghosts
- Ghosts and Haunts of the Civil War
- Good Friday
- Great American Presidents
- Gun Violence
- Halloween
- Hazen's Brigade
- Henry Kyd Douglas
- Heritage Tourism
- Historic Preservation
- Hooker's Division
- Incompetent Generals
- Ivan Vasiliyevicch Turchinoff
- James McPherson
- James Walker military artist
- JEB Stuart
- Jefferson Davis
- John C. Calhoun
- John Wilkes Booth
- Johnny Depp
- Julia Dent Grant
- Kotetsu
- Lincoln and Cocaine
- Lincoln Assasination
- Little Round Top
- Major Robert Anderson
- Mary Todd Lincoln
- Memorial Day
- Morphine
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nashville
- Nashville Ghosts and Haunts
- Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Nettie Colburn Maynard
- New York State Military Museum
- Old Glory
- Opium
- Orchard Knob
- Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period
- Picket Duty during the Civil War
- Premonitions
- Presentiments
- President James Buchanan
- Prince Albert
- Prophecy and the Civil War
- Prostitution
- Queen Victoria
- Robert E. Lee
- Robert Enrico
- Seances
- Secessionism
- Seventh New York Volunteer Infantry
- SEX and the Civil War
- Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
- Slavery
- Southern women and Yankee men
- Spiritualism
- Stonewall Jackson
- Ta-Nehesi Coates
- Tad Lincoln
- Tennessee State Capitol
- Thanksgiving
- The American Civil War
- The American Revolution
- The Army of Cumberland
- The Army of Northern Virginia
- The Army of Tennessee
- The Army of the Potomac
- The Battle of Nashville
- The Christmas Tree
- The Confederate Flags poem
- The Gettysburg Address
- The Hartford Convention
- The Hutchinson Family Singers
- The Jingling Hole
- The Last Surrender
- The Napoleonic Wars
- The Nullification Crisis
- The Paranoral Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
- the Paranormal
- The Russian Thunderbolt
- The Spanish Conspiracy
- The Trent Affair
- the United States is…
- The Western Conspiracies of the early Republic
- Third Ohio Cavalry
- Thomas' Legion
- Ukraine
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Uncategorized
- Unionist Guerillas
- Valerius Giles
- Valley Forge
- Varina Davis
- Washington D. C.
- Washington's Prophetic Vision
- WHY ARE WE IS?
- William C. Davis
- William Driver
- William Tecumseh Sherman
Meta
Blogroll
Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground
Follow me on Twitter
My Tweets
Category Archives: The Army of the Potomac
Good Friday: The Day Lincoln Died
Today is the day that Lincoln died. It was on April 14, 1865—another Good Friday to be precise—that Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth President, was murdered in cold blood. Young Mary Brennan, an Irish immigrant only recently arrived to … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, April 14, Good Friday, Assasinations, Civil War History, Civil War Leaders, Civil War Spies, Lincoln Assasination, Mary Todd Lincoln, Nettie Colburn Maynard, Premonitions, Presentiments, Prophecy and the Civil War, Robert E. Lee, Spiritualism, The American Civil War, The Army of Northern Virginia, The Army of the Potomac, The Paranoral Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Washington D. C.
Tagged American Civil War, April 14, Civil War, Good Friday and Lincoln, paranormal, President Abraham Lincoln, Prophecies, The Day Lincoln Died
Leave a comment
AMBROSE BIERCE ON THE 7TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
One might think that after one has written over 100,000 words on a subject–in this case, Ambrose Bierce and the Period of Honorable Strife–one has said all there is to say on a subject. But that is not the case; … Continue reading
Posted in 7th New York Militia, 7th New York Volunteer Infantry, Abraham Lincoln, Ambrose Bierce, Civil War History, Secessionism, Seventh New York Volunteer Infantry, The Army of the Potomac
Tagged 7th New York Infantry, Abraham Lincoln, Ambrose Bierce, Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Potomac, Spanish American War
Leave a comment
EllSWORTH’S GHOST: The Phantom Zouave
Today’s article was originally published in our sister blog about unexplained phenomena of the South, Dixie Spirits, itself based on my book by the same name. In that tome we investigated the Custis-Lee Mansion, also known as Arlington House, which … Continue reading
The Christmas Picket: A Civil War Christmas, Part 12
December 25, 1861. A nineteen year old private in the Confederate army, Valerius Cincinnatus Giles, was on guard detail along the Potomac River this Winter day, pacing back and forth and occasionally staring over at the Yankees of General Sickles’ … Continue reading
