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Henry A. Allen's Last Letter of 1864

Henry A. Allen's Last Letter of 1864

Capt. Allen has certainly grown weary of his life as a prisoner of war.

19th century, Civil War, Henry A. Allen, Public History, Soldiers, Veterans, letters, civil war letters, POWKeith HarrisDecember 31, 2018Henry A. AllenComment

Hardtack 2017

Hardtack 2017

Civil War, Education, SoldiersKeith HarrisOctober 21, 2017Civil War soldiers, hardtack and coffee, high school teacher, John Billings, teaching history, Union armyComment

The Face of (Post) War

SoldiersKeith HarrisApril 24, 2015Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Civil War, GAR, Indiana, Union, veterans, wounded Comments

Frederick Douglass on Black Soldiers

SoldiersKeith HarrisMay 28, 201454th Massachusetts, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, USCTComment

The Return of Henry A. Allen

SoldiersKeith HarrisMay 13, 2014Civil War prisons, Henry A- Allen, Immortal 600Comment

The Brothers' War - Some Scholarly Origins

SoldiersKeith HarrisApril 12, 2014Bell I Wiley, brothers war, Bruce Catton, ReconciliationComment

Appomattox Day

SoldiersKeith HarrisApril 10, 2014Appomattox, Appomattox Day, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Robert E- Lee, Ulysses S- Grant, Union veterans Comments

The Geezer of Gettysburg

SoldiersKeith HarrisApril 8, 2014Civil War, Civil War books, Gettysburg, John Burns, memoryComment

Elmer E. Ellsworth - an Unfortunate Civil War First

SoldiersKeith HarrisApril 4, 2014Abraham Lincoln, battle deaths, Civil War soldiers, Elmer Ellsworth, Francis Brownell, James W- Jackson, Marshall House Inn Comments

Mysteries Abound - Whatever Happened to the Body of Confederate General Richard B. Garnett?

SoldiersKeith HarrisMarch 28, 2014Confederate Soldiers, Gettysburg, Hollywood Cemetery, Richard B Garnett Comments

The Rebel Yell Revisited

SoldiersKeith HarrisMarch 22, 2014Museum of the Confederacy, not the Billy Idol video, Rebel Yell Comments

The Quote Game

SoldiersKeith HarrisMarch 21, 2014Civil War, quotes, U-S- Grant Comments

What's With the Irish Brigade? (Obligatory St. Patrick's Day Post)

SoldiersKeith HarrisMarch 17, 2014Civil War memory, Dan Nance, Don Troiani, Fredericksburg, Gods and Generals, Irish Brigade Comment

The Prison Life of Henry A. Allen

SoldiersKeith HarrisFebruary 19, 2014Civil War prisons, Henry A- Allen, Immortal 600, Johnson's IslandComment