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Showing posts with label Trans-Mississippi Theater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trans-Mississippi Theater. Show all posts
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Missouri Civil War on classic television

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While searching through old movies on YouTube the other day, I saw the name of a familiar battle of the Missouri Civil War. Decision at W...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Got my author's copies of Spirits of St. Louis!

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A nice little package from Rocking Horse Publishing arrived here in Spain , containing my author's copies of Spirits of St. Louis: Mis...
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Friday, December 13, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: The tomb of the Emperor Maximilian

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On last week's trip to Vienna I visited several sites of historical interest. One of them was the Imperial Crypt of the Hapsburg dyna...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The Apache way of war

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"You want us to ride around your wagon circle making perfect targets while you shoot at us? I don't think so, paleface!" ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Private Simeon J. Crews, 7th Texas Cavalry

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This fearsome fellow is Private Simeon J. Crews of Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment. He's carrying a revolver and a cavalry saber th...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Prisoner Exchange

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This image shows non-commissioned officers from the 19th Iowa Infantry. They were recently prisoners at Camp Ford, Texas, before being exc...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Scorched Earth Policy in Civil War Missouri

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By the middle of 1863, 150 years ago, the Civil War in Missouri had gotten nasty. Regular Confederate forces had long since been pushed ou...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: A Duel Between Confederate Generals

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"You're a coward!" Remember Confederate General John Sappington Marmaduke ? He was best known for raiding Missouri , altho...
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Monday, September 2, 2013

Wild Bill Hickok in the Civil War

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When we think of Wild Bill Hickok, we usually think of him as an Old West gunfighter and scout on the Plains. Here he is, second from lef...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Wild West Photo Friday: Wild Bill Hickok

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  You don't get much more Wild West than Wild Bill Hickok. A scout, Indian fighter, lawman, gunfighter, gold prospector, and during t...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

When you take away a cavalryman's horse, he ain't happy

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In a previous post I talked about the 30th Arkansas Infantry , a Confederate unit. That name is a bit misleading because the regiment actu...
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Civil War Photo Friday: Colonel Robert A. Hart, CSA

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This dapper gentleman is Colonel Robert A. Hart. He was born in Ireland and immigrated to Arkansas before the war. On August 1, 1862, Ha...
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Monday, August 5, 2013

A Famous Refugee from the American Civil War

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War always creates refugees, and civil wars especially so. As North and South fought it out, large numbers of civilians fled the advancing...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

A Civil War veteran in Tangier

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While I was in Tangier I learned of an interesting connection between the American Legation , pictured here, and the Civil War. In Dece...
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Monday, July 8, 2013

Tsarist coastal artillery in Estonia and Jesse James in Italy

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While I was away on my writing retreat in Tangier I popped up on the Web a couple of times. The organizers of the èStoria Festival, who ...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

An unplanned ride through enemy lines

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As I've mentioned before, by 1863 the fight in Missouri was mostly one between Union soldiers and militia and Confederate bushwhackers ....
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Monday, June 10, 2013

The Confederacy is cut in two!

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A hundred and fifty years ago last week, the Confederacy was cut in two. The last bastions on the Mississippi River, Vicksburg and Port Hu...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

One of my books has been translated into Swedish!

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After hearing earlier this year that two of my military history books for Osprey Publishing are being translated into Italian , it turns o...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Charles Zagonyi, Soldier on Two Continents

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At the start of the Civil War, both sides were desperate for men with military experience. The last major U.S. conflict had been the Mexic...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Skirmish at Yellow Creek

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Compared with the great Civil War campaigns back East, the struggle west of the Mississippi River had relatively few battles. Most of the ...
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