I have two articles in the book – “Boxers, Briefs and Battles” on CW men’s undies, and “Killing Time,” on CW playing cards. I’m proud…
A friend sent me the following, from Glastonbury Historical Society where he was docent, after reading my NYT article on Civil War underwear. (When I was…
Please visit my New York Times Disunion article on men’s underwear in the Civil War, the basics on their form and manufacturing, laundering and lice,…
Green could be hard to come by, even for the Irish, in the nineteenth century. A one-step green color was not available to textile artists…
A photo of Grant’s aide Rawlins and his family, posted on Sean McLachlan’s Civil War Horror blog, struck me as being remarkably similar to this,…
(See also the earlier post Nineteenth-century underwear (men’s). ) “I having lost my horse on the 4th, with all my clothes, and feeling rather lively from…