On January 15, 1863, Lt. Col. Rufus Ingalls, Quartermaster General, Army of the Potomac, replied to an earlier letter from his superior, Brig. Gen. Montgomery Meigs, in which Meigs had asked about “securing the supplies that may be in the Peninsula between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers.” “The matter has frequently engaged my attention,” Ingalls…
While back home recently, I took in a Tigers’ game with my brother. We could not have asked for better Michigan weather, and went downtown early to walk around and enjoy a few Lafayette Coney Island hot dogs before the game. The downtown area of the city is truly experiencing a re-birth. Office buildings, many…
Military conflicts have, I suspect, brought out the entrepreneurial spirit in people for eons. The American Civil War was certainly no different. Hundreds, if not thousands, of would be entrepreneurs inundated the governments and war departments of both sides with offers to provide services and products of all kinds. Most of the folks meant well…
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