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Gordon Thorsby
Civil War Notes
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Gordon Thorsby
Sep 23, 20225 min read
The Great Disaster at Norfolk 1861.
by Gordon Thorsby Courtesy of the Mariner's Museum of Norfolk The surrender of Ft. Sumter on April 14 was a disappointment for the North....
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Gordon Thorsby
Aug 1, 20226 min read
Of Bookkeepers and Engineers on the U.S.S. Monitor
by Gordon Thorsby Front row, from left: Robinson W. Hands 20, Edwin V. Gager-47, not at Hampton Roads (HR); second row, Louis N. Stodder-...
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Gordon Thorsby
Apr 21, 20224 min read
Damn the Torpedoes? ...Close but Not Quite.
by Gordon Thorsby An August Morning at the Battle of Mobile Bay by William Heysham Overend Grant was stuck at Petersburg, Sherman seemed...
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Gordon Thorsby
Mar 21, 20223 min read
When CSS Alabama was Sinking
by Gordon Thorsby A sailor-poet on Alabama wrote as his ship steamed out from Cherbourg harbor: “We’re homeward, we’re homeward bound...
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