The Confederate Flag at Washington and Lee
For the past few months, students at Washington and Lee University have been petitioning the University Administration to remove the Confederate Flags that are ...
Tag: Civil War
Summer Challenge: Seminary Ridge Museum
I have been vacationing in Florida the past few days for a family reunion but the Summer Challenge Continues. If you would like some background on the Summer C...
Rev. Joseph Henry Thayer, Chaplain 40th Massachusetts
The Reverend Joseph Henry Thayer was born November 7, 1828 in Braintree Massachusetts to Joseph Thayer and Evelina Stetson Thayer. He studied at the Boston Lat...
Memorial Day
There is often confusion around what Memorial Day is for and as much as I like to gather with my family for a cook out in the back yard, the primary purpose is ...
Soldier’s Home Visit
I recently had the honor of speaking to a group of veterans at the Soldiers Home located in Chelsea Massachusetts. I was invited by a group of veterans that be...
Our Great National Evil
“Our greatest central national evil, is a want of respect and reverence for man as man, as a being created in the likeness and image of God. It is the denial o...
Southbridge in the Civil War 1863-64
This is the third is a series of essays on the role of the Town of Southbridge in the Civil War. As the war continued the amount of involvement of the local le...
Southbridge in the Civil War 1862
In my previous post I recalled the events of the Town of Southbridge in the year of 1861. In today’s post the actions of the Board of Selectman will take cente...
Southbridge in the Civil War 1861
Over the next few weeks I will be presenting a series of posts on the activities of the Town of Southbridge Massachusetts during the time of the American Civil ...
Arthur Buckminster Fuller, Preacher, Chaplain, and Patriot
When I began my study of the chaplaincy during the time of the American Civil War, the first person I came across was the Reverend Arthur Buckminster Fuller. H...