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		<title>Marching Through Loudoun: June 18, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the month of June 1863, the Army of the Potomac made two large operational pivots. The first pivot took place after the Battle of Brandy Station with the army moving off the Rappahannock River, where it faced generally south, &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/loudoun-june-18-1863/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13985&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marching Through Loudoun: June 17, 1863</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[150 years ago today, elements of the Army of the Potomac entered Loudoun County. The army had passed this way before. The previous fall the army advanced through Loudoun following Army of Northern Virginia, falling back from the killing fields &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/loudoun-june-17-1863/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13974&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>150 Years Ago: The short operational sortie of the CSS Atlanta</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On this morning (June 17) in 1863, Commander William Webb directed the CSS Atlanta into Wassaw Sound. Webb had big plans for the Atlanta: My plan, which seems to me to be feasible (of course, being governed by the weather &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/css-atlanta-captured/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13959&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guns of the CSS Atlanta: Part 2 – 7 inch Brooke Rifles</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/walk-around-7-inch-sb-brooke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Savannah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brooke Rifle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSS Atlanta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moving up a caliber from yesterday&#8217;s post, now let&#8217;s look at the bow and stern guns of the CSS Atlanta.  At the time of capture, the Confederate ironclad mounted a 7-inch Single Banded Brooke Rifle in each position.  On the &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/walk-around-7-inch-sb-brooke/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13954&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guns of the CSS Atlanta: Part 1 &#8211; 6.4 inch Brooke Rifles</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/walk-around-6-4-inch-sb-brooke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when this blog was &#8220;young&#8221; I posted about the CSS Atlanta and her guns at the Washington Navy Yard.  Time to revisit that topic and provide a bit more about the rebel ironclad. Let me start with a walk &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/walk-around-6-4-inch-sb-brooke/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13947&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federals on Folly, Confederates on Morris, and a blockade runner between</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/wreck-of-the-ruby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sad photo of wreckage on the beach. The Library of Congress caption indicates the pieces in the photo are all that remained of the blockade runner Ruby, which ran aground off Lighthouse Inlet on the night of June 10-11, &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/wreck-of-the-ruby/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13940&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roads to Gettysburg &#8211; Marching through Loudoun</title>
		<link>http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/marching-through-loudoun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Potomac Crossings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sesquicentennial]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned these events earlier, but let me post a reminder today: Roads to Gettysburg &#8211; The Army of the Potomac Marching through Loudoun During the last week of June 1863, most of the Federal Army of the Potomac crossed &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/marching-through-loudoun/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13934&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lee to Gorgas: Give me good saddles and carbines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always drawn to the little things that show up in correspondence between a commander and his sources of supply or equipment. It&#8217;s the old &#8220;for want of a nail..&#8221; One example of such is a letter from General Robert &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/cs-saddles-and-carbines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13929&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>150 years ago: Darien, Georgia in ashes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Savannah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darien Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day (June 11)  in 1863, Colonel James Montgomery brought a detachment including some of his 2nd South Carolina Volunteers along with companies of Colonel Robert G. Shaw&#8217;s 54th Massachusetts to Darien, Georgia.  Like Combahee Ferry and Bluffton before, &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/darien-georgia-burned/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13924&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raids along the coast: Were these precursors to the burning in the Shenandoah Valley?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Swain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I discussed the Combahee Ferry Raid. But that was not the only raid Major-General David Hunter authorized. In the days after the 2nd South Carolina&#8217;s foray, several other similar raids hit points along the South Carolina and Georgia &#8230; <a href="http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/hunters-coastal-raids/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markerhunter.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2602717&#038;post=13916&#038;subd=markerhunter&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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