Snowbrush

  Peggy, our five cats, and I, live in a modest 69-year-old house in a slowly deteriorating neighborhood. In the past five months we’ve spen...

Today is Sunday. On Wednesday, Peggy left on her fourth vacation of the year. I kid her about only leaving home when the house needs cleanin...

Emma Kline   Hundreds of women served at Vicksburg in one way or another. A Confederate woman named Emma Kline was arrested for smuggling , ...

Ironclads Running the Batteries at Vicksburg Abraham Lincoln called Vicksburg “the key to the war,” and his Confederate counterpart, Jeffers...

  As I start this post, eight men are tearing the roof from my house with square-pointed shovels. The noise from yesterday’s shingle deliver...

Retreat from Bull Run (aka First Manassas) On an average day, 425 men died during America ’ s four-year-long Civil War. Although the countr...