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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
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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
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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
