Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business…
Category Archives: hiking
Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua
Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.
Colby & Bacon on a Night March
The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency …
Colby 35: Day of Rest
1862: Colby’s footsore “day of rest” just happens to be the bloodiest day in US military history …
Colby 34: Trouble in Camp
1862: Colby & Bacon may have “straggled” in a field the night before, but they’re up at dawn and on the road …
Colby 33: Straggling Commenced
1862: Colby’s regiment gets back to basics on its first hard night march …
Colby 32: We Plodded Doggedly On
1862: The sun goes down & the miles drag on …
Colby 31: Dusty Roads
1862: Troop movements along the Potomac …
Colby 30: Night’s March!
1862: The orders go out: It’s a night’s march! …
Swett 10: Snow-balling in June
1865: The restorative powers of the White Mountains during the closing months of the Civil War…
Mayflowers (B K Jones, April 25th 1858) (Guest Post)
1858: Burleigh K. Jones has some fun times planned for May Day, but life around the capital still seems unbearably dull… (Drawn by guest artist Althea Barton)
Colby 22: Philadelphia by Mule
1862: With the war raging next door in Maryland, the city of Philadelphia STILL insists on certain inconvenient city ordinances …