Turkey Break
There won’t be much – if any – activity here for a while as I take a little holiday break.  Nope, no burnout.  I do have some posts to make, but won’t be able to get to them for a week or so.  Anyway, I try only to post when I a) have something to say [...]

Manassas News
Reader Keith Yoder sent these links (here and here) regarding preservation efforts/studies at Manassas National Battlefield Park.  The first summarizes the situation, and the second is a PDF document of the Prince William County study in question.  I think he may have sent me these as a result of some of the comments made to the [...]

Rowland Ward
A while back I ran this article explaining my tag line to the right (Dulce Bellum Inexpertis).  Today I received a message from Charles Mills, a descendant of the man pictured in that article. Rowland Ward was my great-great-grandfather. Born in 1818 in Lincolnshire, England, he came to America as a young man and settled in Hunts Hollow, [...]

Turkey Break
There won’t be much – if any – activity here for a while as I take a little holiday break.  Nope, no burnout.  I do have some posts to make, but won’t be able to get to them for a week or so.  Anyway, I try only to post when I a) have something to say [...]

Diary 7/22/1861 – Pvt. John Henry Cowin, Co. D, 5th AL
Arose this morning very tired and sore, scarcely able to walk at first but after breakfast felt better and walked around to see what was to be seen after yesterdays fight.  I was witness to some awful scenes.  Saw the wounded, shot in every portion of their body, head, neck,, body, arms, hands, legs & feet.  [...]