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Showing posts with label General George Custer. Show all posts

Showing posts with label General George Custer. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Then & Now: The sad decline of Custer's 'honeymoon house'

"Clover Hill" in March 1864 A cropped enlargement of Custer with his staff on the front porch of "Clover Hill" in March...

Monday, February 05, 2018

Video: Finding Custer, Buford, more at West Point Cemetery

On a frosty Saturday afternoon, I was the only soul on the grounds of West Point Cemetery, the final resting place for Civil War notables ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Grand Review of Union Army 'positively beggars description'

(Mathew Brady | Library of Congress) A cropped version of a lithograph showing presidential viewing stand in front of White House. ...

Friday, February 20, 2015

Cedar Creek (Va.) battlefield: Belgian-owned quarry operation threatens historic Belle Grove Plantation house

Click here for battlefield panoramas from Antietam, Cedar Mountain, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Harris Farm, Manassas, Malvern Hill, Salem Chu...

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John Banks: John Banks is author of A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime, Connecticut Yankees at Antietam and Hidden History of Connecticut Union Soldiers. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, Civil War News, America's Civil War and Military Images. Banks, who attended Mount Lebanon (Pa.) High School, graduated from West Virginia University (B.A. in journalism). A longtime journalist (The Dallas Morning News, ESPN, The History Channel), he is secretary-treasurer of The Center for Civil War Photography.

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