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		<title>From Battery to Bureau: P.B. Stanard&#8217;s Path to Third Corps Ordnance Officer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Schulte]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TOCWOC Editor&#8217;s Note: This one grew out of a research project I&#8217;ve been working through for The Siege of Petersburg Online, cataloging the ordnance officers of the Army of Northern Virginia one Compiled Military Service Record at a time. Philip Beverley Stanard was the Third Corps&#8217; Chief Ordnance Officer under A.P. Hill from 1863 to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reorganizing the Confederate Valley Ordnance Department After the Disaster at Waynesboro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Schulte]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reorganizing the Confederate Valley Ordnance Department After the Disaster at Waynesboro Lt. Col. Briscoe G. Baldwin, Chief of Ordnance, Army of Northern Virginia Briscoe Baldwin isn&#8217;t a name that gets much attention outside of Lee&#8217;s staff studies, but by the last winter of the war he was about as embedded in the Army of Northern [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Decoration Day and Memorial Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 02:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We sometimes forget that today&#8217;s Memorial Day came directly from Decoration Day, which originated to honor the dead of the Civil War. There has been a great deal of discussion about who originated it. In a recent article, Professor Richard Gardner takes a close look at the subject: In the years following the bitter Civil [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A look at the 1860 Census</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 01:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[150 Years Ago in the Civil War]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Figures are inherently dry, but you can learn a lot from them. Here&#8217;s a look at the 1860 census. It gives you can idea of the advantages the North had over the South before the first shots were fired. I was struck by how small (by today&#8217;s standards) the &#8220;big&#8221; cities were, but then the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Review: Such Hard and Severe Service: The 85th Pennsylvania in the Civil War, Volume II, 1864-1865 by Dan Clendaniel</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Schulte]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: This review originally appeared at The Siege of Petersburg Online and has been cross-posted here at TOCWOC &#8211; A Civil War Blog. ***** SOPO EDITOR’S NOTE: This review covers the second volume in a two-volume unit history of the 85th Pennsylvania.  While the first volume will be briefly discussed, the main focus of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sharpshooting &#8220;Myths&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2021 03:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have ordered a copy of Scott Hippensteel&#8217;s new book Myths of the Civil War. Drew Wagenhoffer has a review here. Much of the book seems to be about &#8220;sniping&#8221; and about debunking various incidents. I am skeptical about books that talk about &#8220;myths&#8221; but would like to see what Hippensteel has to say, so [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fold 3 Free!</title>
		<link>https://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2021/07/05/fold-3-free/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 18:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just a heads up for TOCWOC readers that the reference site Fold 3 has their Civil War records accessible for free for another week and a half, until July 18. It&#8217;s a great opportunity to research your ancestor&#8217;s CW service without having to subscribe. Fold 3 has most (but not all) of the CW CSRs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Confederate Gold in Pennsylvania?</title>
		<link>https://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2021/06/26/confederate-gold-in-pennsylvania/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 23:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Might even be stolen U.S. gold from the Federal Mint. Archer wrote that he also spoke with a journalist who had done extensive research on a Civil War-era group called the Knights of the Golden Circle. The KGC, Archer wrote, was a secret society of Confederate sympathizers that had purportedly “buried secret caches of weapons, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Big Guns and Bombs</title>
		<link>https://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2021/04/02/big-guns-and-bombs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 23:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everyone probably knows what a revolver is, but do you know which one is the biggest? The S&#38;W 29, beloved of Dirty Harry? The Colt Walker? Naah, not even close. It was Pate&#8217;s revolving cannon. Not a hand cannon, mind you, but a real one on a carriage. Each ball for the revolving cannon weighed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lorenzo Barber&#8217;s &#8220;Combo&#8221; Gun</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred Ray]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lewis Hepburn]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some time ago (in 2006) I wrote a post about John Jacob and his unusual rifle. In it I said that Lorenzo Barber, the “Fighting Parson” of the 1st U.S.S.S., used a Jacob rifle because he is mentioned as having a double-barrel rifle with one barrel loaded with buckshot and the other with a bullet. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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