by John Fox | Mar 20, 2012 | 2012
Charlottesville Civil War Roundtable, E lks club Lodge, 389 elks Drive, 6 pm. for info see cwrt.avenue.org/
by John Fox | Jan 30, 2012 | Blog
A book chock full of information about civilian life in Winchester during the War has just been published by the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society. The hundreds of written pages from this wartime diary have resided in the Handley Library Archives [Stewart...
by John Fox | Dec 7, 2011 | Blog
It is always great to see the present collide with the past. President Obama’s campaign speech in Osawatomie, Kansas yesterday left me scratching my head, and those who know me will agree that I must scratch a lot since I don’t have much hair left. He spewed his usual...
by John Fox | Dec 3, 2011 | Blog
During a recent visit to Winchester, Virginia’s Handley Regional Archives room, officially the Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room, I came across an interesting article in theConfederate Veteran magazine [vol. 27, p. 125] that connected a Confederate officer from a...
by John Fox | Nov 23, 2011 | Blog
On a recent business trip to Budapest, Hungary, I made a side visit into the Hungarian Military History Museum. I spent three hours here until they kicked me out at the closing time of 4 pm. Due to this early winter closing time I missed most of the post-WWII history...
