Showing posts with label 20th Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 20th Massachusetts. Show all posts
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Post Script: Henry Ropes

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Headquarters 3d. Brig. 2d. Divn_ Novr. 5, 1863 John C. Ropes Esq. Dear Sir I intended long before this to have written you a few line...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

To the West Woods: The Correspondence of Henry Ropes, 20th Massachusetts, Entry 12

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This is the twelfth entry in the correspondence of Lieutenant Henry Ropes to his family between September 3 and October 5, 1862. Ropes was a...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

To the West Woods: The Correspondence of Henry Ropes, 20th Massachusetts, Entry 9.

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This is the ninth entry in the correspondence of Lieutenant Henry Ropes to his family between September 3 and October 5, 1862. Ropes was a S...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

To the West Woods: The Correspondence of Henry Ropes, 20th Massachusetts, Entry 8.

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This is the eighth entry in the correspondence of Lieutenant Henry Ropes to his family between September 3 and October 5, 1862. Ropes was a ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

To the West Woods: The Correspondence of Henry Ropes, 20th Massachusetts, Entry 1

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This is the first entry of correspondence by 2nd Lieutenant Henry Ropes written between September 3 and October 5, 1862 to his father, mot...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

"It was a pitiable sight...this great caravan of pilgrims:" Oliver Wendell Holmes' Hunt for the Captain, Part 1

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As the guns grew quiet on Antietam Ridge the evening of September 17th, the telegraph carried the news of the great struggle that day. Corre...