A Boat Against the Current

A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

This Day in Civil War History (Irish Brigade’s Hopeless Valor at Fredericksburg)

December 13, 1862—It was the Union Army’s version of the Charge of the Light Brigade, a valorous but hopeless assault upon an enemy in ...

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MikeT: I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand

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