raid – Live Free and Draw 📖

4 December, 201610 January, 2017 Marek 1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

Hannah Dustin (1697)

"Famous example of frontier heroism." (sic)

27 August, 201527 August, 2015 Marek 1700-1799, 1750s, colonial, French + Indian Wars, guest artist, Peterborough

Fake Raid (Peterborough, 1754) (GUEST POST)

Peterborough resident Liam draws a practical joke from the French-Indian War era:

3 June, 20147 July, 2014 Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 83: Be Prepared

1862: Hard to get a good night's sleep when rumors of raids run rampant ...

23 January, 201427 March, 2014 Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 58: Skirmish

1862: A harrowing day of marching, waiting, marching, & wondering...

13 March, 20133 June, 2014 Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 25: Rumors of Jackson

1862: Gossip spreads about the regiment's first assignment ...