A Mostly Civil War Blog

  I stopped at Crown Point on my way home this week, crossing over to New York from Vermont on the bridge seen above, next to the scant rema...

  Our dog Bella checks out the Sherman tank outside the New York State Military Museum (a former armory) in Saratoga Springs this afternoon....

 The bride and I are on a mini 40th wedding anniversary trip to Vermont, which includes my book talk tomorrow (Saturday Sept. 14) on Junetee...

  Something new this year at Grant Cottage, the Saratoga County, NY site where Ulysses S. Grant completed his memoirs and died in 1885. The ...

This week's meeting of Da Buffs, a Civil War dinner club that gets together every couple of months at the  Shaker Road Loudonville Fire ...

  Gettysburg July 1  is the title of a 1996 book I read recently by David G. Martin. Its 736 pages provide a detailed, readable and exhausti...

  I mentioned Clarence Dart on this blog a couple of years ago , and on Memorial Day this week I snuck away from my volunteer duties at Gran...