tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post3614500316213942453..comments2024-02-20T01:38:55.934-05:00Comments on All Not So Quiet Along the Potomac: Snapshots of Alexandria at the Start of the Peninsula CampaignRon Baumgartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12449787740945022061noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post-70758503970379703912018-09-24T20:33:43.620-04:002018-09-24T20:33:43.620-04:00Thanks. I will need to check out the account. I ha...Thanks. I will need to check out the account. I had heard about Hawthorne's article, but am embarrassed to admit I have yet to read it!<br /><br />RonRon Baumgartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12449787740945022061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post-43075286993938824382018-09-15T15:20:46.147-04:002018-09-15T15:20:46.147-04:00Wonderful post. You may know this already, but arg...Wonderful post. You may know this already, but arguably the best-known account of the army encampment around the Fairfax Seminary appeared in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters," from the Atlantic Monthly in 1862. He visited in March of 1862 and wrote about McClellan, close up. (Hawthorne misidentifies the seminary as "Fairfield Seminary.")Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post-36728145666310825992012-03-28T23:00:05.307-04:002012-03-28T23:00:05.307-04:00Thanks, Sherman! Glad you liked it. It took a bit ...Thanks, Sherman! Glad you liked it. It took a bit of time getting all the various articles and quotes together. These excerpts are priceless and really convey a feeling for the times. I can almost see the army spread out around Alexandria!Ron Baumgartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12449787740945022061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972158399131973757.post-2057949618214855182012-03-28T22:13:20.626-04:002012-03-28T22:13:20.626-04:00This is one of my favorite things you have ever po...This is one of my favorite things you have ever posted! Thanks.Shermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07155361439404842794noreply@blogger.com