For the Record
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve moved them in the last fifty-plus years, lugging them from New York to Florida to a dozen places in Washington State. Once numbering well over one hundred, …
#11- Hannibal Howell’s Military Service
The New York 76th Volunteer Regiment Through Gettysburg The 76th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 12 officers and 161 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 156 enlisted men to disease during …
#10- Query, query, query…
These days getting published requires a literary agent. Few if any publishers accept submissions directly from writers unless, of course, you are someone with a track record. This means that the next task is to …
Dennis Schneider 9/7/1954 – 1/10/2022
I don’t think I ever saw him sweat. If memory serves, he hardly ever purposely indulged in physical exertion of any kind. Yet, in an ironic twist of fate, it was a solitary walk and …
Take A Picture Joe!
Our family friend Joe Kaschak had a birthday that was always easy to remember, January 8th, the day after Orthodox Christmas. Most years, even after several days of Christmas celebrating, everyone would gather to celebrate …
#9 – The Lady from Texas
The Hattie’s War manuscript began with a series of letters written between Hattie and her uncle Bryon. Day one was April 11, 2020, at 3:10 pm. How do I know this? Google Docs and the …
#8 – Letters of Hannibal Howell
From the start, I dreamed of finding Hannibal’s letters. I knew it was a long shot and had pretty much given up hope. Besides, the letters were not something critical to Hattie’s story, at least …
#7 – Who is Hattie?
Hattie’s War is a work of historical fiction loosely based on threads of known information. Once I decided the story should be told by Hattie I needed to figure out who exactly MY Hattie was. …
#6 – Photos and Drawings… the gory details
The Civil War was the first war to be photo-documented, leaving us a vast collection of graphic imagery of the horrors of war. The best-known photographer of the war was Mathew Brady but there were …
#5 – Books
Fortunately, a treasure trove of materials exists ranging from memoirs to historical fiction, to academic writings dating from the time of the conflict up until today. The massive two-volume, The Blue and the Gray; The …