Greetings fellow Civil War enthusiasts

[samgrant]

Hey Daniel,

Welcome home!

What might you know of Camp Webb and/or Camp Fry, training camps in what was then northern 'suburbs' of Chicago?

These were located at or near a place called Wright's Grove or Wright's Woods.

They would have been within a couple blocks of where I live on (the aptly named) Wrightwood, and Clark streets in Chicago.

Also the place at which some of "Tom Brown's letters" were written.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/sc...wnletters.html

sam

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[gary]

Daniel,

I read your blog on that fellow who asserted that Lincoln was gay and I concur with your objections. That writer knows nothing of 19th Century culture and takes things out of context. However, I don't think his faulty analysis is attributable to his lack of training as an historian. As you know, the information cited is nothing new and historians read it a long time ago. So, what's new? He's from San Francisco, is gay and has a political agenda. If he can capture an American Icon, Lincoln, and prove that Lincoln was gay, then he legitimizes gays and makes it more acceptable to society in general. It's "history" written for a political/social purpose or rather, non-history written to further an agenda. No person I know of who has studied the period agrees with his book. Same old facts, new (incorrect) interpretation.

Gary

[larry_cockerham]

I think gays are legitimate. If there's a problem it's the gay part. Fortunately, I like girls.

[Daniel Sauerwein]

Sorry for being gone so long, but I hope to be around more. I will try to answer your posts as best I can. Gary, your first post about education was great and made me laugh. Having just experienced a professional conference and the pressures to stand out amongst the academic elites, it is quite relaxing just to write on my blog and check in here and chat with regular folks. I am sure some of you are concerned with the state of history, but this is one reason why I am working in it, to bring some sense to a hijacked discipline and bring it back to the regular people.

Sam, I am not familiar with those camps in Chicago, but if you know of books, or other sites I should look at, I am all ears. I must confess that in doing this research, I purposefully left out Springfield and Chicago for the most part because my focus is on the rural areas and the small camps that were used maybe once. I presented a paper on the topic yesterday at a conference in Duluth, MN and will be posting it on Civil War History.

To all, I hope to poke around more, especially as I am always looking for new ideas to write about and new writers as well, since my blog is tracked every week by Civil War Interactive. If any of you all are interested in writing with me, please let me know. Again, thanks for the welcome, sorry I have been gone, and have a great week.

Daniel

[FSPowers]

Welcome from an amatuer blogger.