Gordon ThorsbyNov 11, 20212 min"The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up-Unknown" by Walt Whitman [related by Gordon Thorsby] After the war, on any Sunday after church, families and friends could travel out from Washington or Richmond...
Gordon ThorsbyNov 10, 20212 minThe Razor's Edge Between Life and Death, 1863by Gordon Thorsby This letter came from the front dated in early 1863. Kindly read it... slowly, quietly, and imagine the children were...
Gordon ThorsbyNov 8, 20214 minBrothers, Comrades and Almost Neighbors in the Fourth Michiganby Gordon Thorsby The Fourth Michigan Infantry mustered in at the southern tier town of Adrian, Michigan Michigan in 1861. Amongst those...
Gordon ThorsbyNov 5, 20212 minLeadership and Management at Corinth, 1862 Styleby Gordon Thorsby The Battle of Farmington, Mississippi was the scene of a sharp little skirmish in1862, as Federal General Henry...