Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Monday, May 27, 2019

Heroes on the Hoof: Remembering military farriers who lost their lives

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Every Memorial Day, I resolve to put together all my scraps of research and tally up some statistics on fallen farriers--the ones who...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Hoofmarks in Aleppo: Will the citadel's ancient inverted horseshoe curse save it again?

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Heels up or heels down in Aleppo, Syria tonight? These might have been the oldest and most historic horseshoes on earth. All but one of th...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Civil War Painting Adds African-American Dimension to History of US Horseshoeing

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I just stared at in disbelief. It was beautiful. It looked accurate. And it depicted something that, to the best of my knowledge,  ...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Boston's historic 54th Regiment of black soldiers marched straight into Civil War history

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A brief excerpt from a PBS documentary on the sculptor Saint-Gaudens, who created the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common. We take it for gran...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Farrier History: Negro Ellick Shod Horses for the Confederacy in the Civil War

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Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of one of the darkest and most painful chapters in United States history: the Civil War. Whe...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Historic Gems for Veterans Day

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On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, World War I ended. It was November 11, 1918. Here we are almost 100 years later, and ...