Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Fences: Part 3 of 3

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Illustration 1.  Looking north  from "B" in Illustration 2. The last of this short series concerns a Gardner photo of the w...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Fences--Part 2 of 3

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Illustration 1. Dismantled Virginia Worm fencing, Sunken Road. Illustration 2. Before the Dunkard Church. Post and rail fencing.  Th...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Fences--Part 1 of 3

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Illustration 1. The George Poffenberger farmstead, ca. 1896. The Hagerstown Pike is on the right. Part 1 of a three part entry on fences...
Friday, July 1, 2011

"Dead, Yet He Liveth:" The Peculiar Case of William H. Lewis

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"William H. Lewis" This entry was suggested back in May by contributor Michael O'Brien who posted a note on Private William...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Memorial Day 2011 West Woods

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On Memorial Day, May 30, 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. addressed the John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic at Keene, NH. H...
Monday, May 23, 2011

"An erroneous account of the fight I had:" Early, Jackson, and Faulkner and the "Pious Fraud" in the West Woods

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As reported on earlier posts, the Ezra Carman Papers at the Library of Congress, containers 15 and 16, include correspondence between Carman...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

"The ominous booming of distant cannon admonished me to hasten on:" The Melancholy Mission of Bowen B. Moon to the West Woods, Part 3

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This is the third and final entry of a multi part post on the journey from Herkimer County, New York of Bowen B. Moon to retrieve his broth...
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