Greg Acken
@GregAckenCivil War researcher & author. Telling the stories of soldiers through their own words. Villanova Wildcat. Dad & husband
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Just got my copies! “Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke-Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863-August 1865” from @KentStateUPress Available widely soon. Rawle wrote much abt his experiences in the 3rd PA Cav. from Brandy Station & Gettysburg thru Appomattox.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin was an American citizen. He was abandoned by his government as he had his arms blown off, taken hostage for nearly a year, and murdered right after his desperate parents appealed to the DNC. He should have lived.
Great news from the good people at Kent State U Press!
Excited to launch our new blog, The Book Starts Here—a place to celebrate author achievements and share insight into making books at a mission-driven, not-for-profit university press. With news about @W7VOA, @RachWilliams87, @MattMinicucci, @GregAcken: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com
More award news, as “Through Blood and Fire” wins a distinguished writing award from @USArmyMuseumFdn Congrats to editor J. Gregory Acken! armyhistory.org/2023-ahf-disti…
Eight Yale rowers won gold at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. At this year’s Paris games, 16 current and former Yale rowers representing nine nations will carry on the enduring tradition of Yale Rowing on the world stage. #Yale #Olympics @YaleAthletics news.yale.edu/2024/07/25/all…
First Lieutenant Hugh Doran Fricks, 22, killed in action on #Tarawa on November 23, 1943, was accounted for on March 16, 2020, and buried at the #PunchbowlCemetery on June 25, 2024, with members of his family present. #WWII #NoOneLeftBehind #RememberHonorUnderstand #NeverForget
Maj.Charles J. Mills of Gen. AA Humphreys 2nd Corps staff. Killed on this day 159 years ago at the Battle of White Oak Road. One side of the inscribed locket contains hair taken from him after his death.
Pulled out this excellent volume tonight from @GregAcken and @KentStateUPress Looking for tidbits about the Second Corps staff. 
Imagine being the President of the United States and waking up today… You’re told that every single day for the last 3+ years, thousands of unknown, unvetted migrants have illegally crossed our border and are being released into the country. Millions and millions of people in…
"In this updated edition of 'Through Blood and Fire,' Acken demonstrates expertise in his editing of Mills’s letters. He provides detailed annotations about Union Army commanders and Mills’s social circle of elite Bostonians and Harvard alumni."—H-Net buff.ly/3S7tfRo
11/11 in London in 2023. Unbelievable. That it should come to this.
Breaking: Volunteers at Victoria Station in London selling poppies for a veterans charity on #RemembanceDay/Veterans Day are surrounded by pro-Palestine protesters. The charity volunteers are forced to move further and further away.
A tribute to all who’ve served, courtesy of America’s pro-Hamas community:
Finally arrived yesterday, and can’t wait to dig in! Only 960 pages.
A very nice review from George Rable in the Civil War Monitor.
"Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865" is "an excellent collection of letters, valuable to the researcher as well as the casual reader," write George Rable in our latest #BookReview. Read more here: tinyurl.com/4ba4fak5 #CivilWar
BOOKNOTES: "Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised and Expanded Edition" cwba.blogspot.com/2023/04/bookno… @KentStateUPress
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