Showing posts with label Dancing Proest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dancing Proest. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

"The Burning Glow" by Luke H. Davis

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Cameron Ballack is back. And he’s traipsing all over where I used to bike.  Ballack is the fictional wheelchair-bound detective created by S...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane

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If I have one vivid memory of high school junior English class, it would be the classic coming-of-age assignment of  The Red Badge of Courag...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Belle Boyd: Cleopatra of the Secession

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Belle Boyd   (1844-1900) was 16 when the Civil War began. A member of a prominent family in Martinsburg, Virginia (it became part of WestVir...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

"The Civil War: The First Year by Those Who Lived It"

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The refusal of Fort Sumter to surrender and the subsequent shelling by South Carolinian authorities might have been the immediate cause of t...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

"Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer" by G. Mosley Sorrell

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This memoir of the Civil War,  Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer  by  G. Moxley Sorrell  (1838-1901), was a genuine pleasure to r...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

“If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: Vol. 1” by Scott Mingus & Eric Wittenberg

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When you get the compressed view of history in school – too much to cover and not enough time – you tend to think events like battles just h...
Monday, September 26, 2022

"Eyewitness to the Civil War" by Stephen Hyslop

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Sometimes I’m a sucker for coffee table books. And sometimes they turn out to be more than coffee table books.    In 2006, National Geograph...