Blogging A-Z Z Is For Zouave
I appreciate more than you all know how you have supported me through this. I know the posts have been long and windy, taking up valuable time. Bless you for…
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April 30, 2016
Blogging A-Z Y Is For Yell
With a Rebel Yell by Mort Künstler I highly recommend this artist's work for quality and authenticity. He's excellent. Y is for yell. I wavered between a scene with a…
April 29, 2016
Blogging A-Z X Is For Xanthic
I like sprinkling "gems" of description through my writing. I don't go into great detail about every person and every item, though I do offer more than many writers do.…
April 28, 2016
Blogging A-Z W Is For Wiretap
George Ellsworth Gen. John Hunt Morgan Mention wiretapping and everyone automatically thinks of FBI, NSA, smarmy illegal eavesdropping by unethical private investigators and various other modern scenarios, but it actually…
April 27, 2016
Blogging A-Z V Is For Vivandiere
Vivandiere's were first used by the French. They were women who followed the armies, as sutlers or canteen keepers. In the American Civil War, they assumed nursing duties mainly, often…
April 26, 2016
Blogging From A-Z U Is For Uncle
It will come as a surprise to many that older blacks, slave or free, were referred to as "Auntie" or "Uncle" by many people whether they knew them or not.…
April 25, 2016
Blogging A-Z T Is For Toads and Frogs
We're almost through the month. That's good and bad. We've almost burned through another month of our lives! What do we have to show for it? Something good I hope.…
April 23, 2016
Blogging A-Z S Is For Stringfellow
Frank Stringfellow Stringfellow headstone, which has a pointed top as many Confederate stones do so Union sympathizers can't sit on it. The television show Mercy Street has introduced a character…
April 22, 2016
Blogging A-Z R Is For The Great Rappahannock Snow Battle
This snow battle won't make it into Rain Crow as the book will probably end sometime at the end of 1861, but if there is a second or third book,…
April 21, 2016
Blogging A-Z Q Is For Quinine
I have a steamer trunk similar to this and it would be like some of the trunks Lorena and Imogene have. Some of the traveling Victorian vanity cases in were…
April 20, 2016