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This Day in U.S. Military History 
Looks great! I’ve corrected the link on my blog to your new URL. Very nice.
Is there a place where I could upload a similar calendar feature? I’m updating mine on a daily basis for the second year, but really wish I had that feature too.
Pat, I’ll send you the code. It is a bear to edit, if you have a good text editor and know how to use the advanced features that will help a lot.
Thank you very much!
Thanks again, I just put the feature up and it works great. It is a bear to edit, but it is a nice addition to which I’m indebted to you for.
I absolutely agree, the same goes for the note On Lincoln dated December 9 1861 – To monitor both military progress and the Lincoln administration, Congress creates the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. The War Committee, as it was called, was created in the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Ball’s Bluff in October 1861 and was designed to provide a check over the executive branch’s management of the war. The committee was stacked with Radical Republicans and staunch abolitionists, however, and was often biased in its approach to investigations of the Union war effort. Among other things, the War Committee investigated fraud in government war contracts, the treatment of Union prisoners held in the South, alleged atrocities committed by Confederate troops against Union soldiers, and the Sand Creek Massacre of Indians in Colorado. Most of the committee’s energies were directed towards investigating Union defeats, particularly those of the Army of the Potomac. Many members were bitterly critical of generals like George McClellan and George Meade, Democrats that they believed were “soft” on slavery. The War Committee was often at odds with the Lincoln administration’s handling of the war effort, and had particular problems with the administration’s military decisions. At the beginning of the war, it was critical because the administration did not have the eradication of slavery as one of its goals. Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, the committee still found fault with many of the administration’s decisions-for instance, they did not want any Democratic generals in the army. Members of the committee often leaked testimony to the press and contributed to the jealousy and distrust among Union generals. Although the committee did help to uncover fraud in war contracts, the lack of military expertise by its members often simply complicated the Northern war effort. notice how it portrays the Republicans as Radicals because they were hard on generals who were soft on the issue of slavery hey act as if it was a bad thing that they were against slavery. I am starting to wonder if the writers are biosed in the way they report the supposed facts. I have used this page as a resource for some time but I am starting to wonder if I need to look elsewhere for my information. To say Republicans were radical because they didn’t support slavery sounds like the writer fills as if slavery should have been continued. They seem to do the same thing with reporting on things that happened in the 60s maintaining that socalisem is a good thing.
Languages change over time, and the word “radical” didn’t carry some of the negative connotations in the 1860’s that it does today. The faction of Repubicans that strongly opposed slavery and favored harsh treatment of the South following the Civil War called themselves Radicals, this is the origin of the term as it is used here. They were opposed by two other factions in the Republican party, the Conservatives (lead by Secretary of State Seward), and the Moderates (lead by Lincoln). Those terms have also changed meaning over time as well.
Not everyone was opposed to slavery, and even those who were, were not uniformly in favor of abolition. Lincoln is a prime example.
What is the procedure for requesting an entry for a certain date? Thank you.
Just place a comment on that date’s entry.
I have been a follower of this site for a few years now. But recently, I have noted a difference in the writing/delivery format. Some of it tends to raise the little hairs on the back of my neck… one such incident is as follows: “The Virginia Declaration of Rights granted every individual the right to the enjoyment of life and liberty and to acquire and possess property. The Virginia document was written by George Mason…” My problem with this posting is that the government cannot grant that as a right… but is duty bound to insure that as a natural right it cannot be infringed BY government rulings. Now the reason it raises the little hairs on my neck is it seems to validate some left leaning teachings that GOVERNMENT grants human rights NOT that the rights **are** or SHOULD be understood to be natural to birth. If this site is placed as an education site… then we must pay closer attention to the details and see that the student has the FACTS related to all subject matter. No rights came from George Mason, no rights came from any legislator, as stated in the Constitution of the USA… rights are endowed by the Creator… not mankind. Thusly, government’s duty is to PROTECT those rights. We have at least one generation now that wants people to believe differently… that GOVERNMENT grants rights… we do not need another source that endorses that fictitious train of thought. MANKIND can only INFRINGE on the rights of mankind.
Thank you for your indulgence,
DW Jones/aka/Punchdrunque
DW,
This is a by-product of how the information on this site has been gathered. Most of what is here is not my own writing. It started out as my own private catalog of events in a spreadsheet, and I eventually moved it to a blog. I have a disclaimer elsewhere that points out that most of the writing is not my work. It was chosen for the catalog for being comprehensive, if not completely correct.
I completely agree with your conclusions. This entry is one that screams for a rewrite. There are a lot of them. As you’ve brought this one to my attention like this, I’ll probably be addressing it sooner then later. I’m sure you’ll find more.
Hi DW – Your post delves into the philosophical distinction between Natural Rights and Civil Liberties, and questions of what natural rights one should relinquish in return for the protections of civil liberties granted by a government. This all gets very tricky when we haven’t had the chance to gain agreement on what the words we’re using mean. The post you quote uses the word “rights,’ and it seems to do so in a way that means something different from what you think it should mean. The word “rights” gets used a lot in discussions about people and their relationship to their government (Consider the title of the very important document “The Bill of Rights.” or the beginning of the Miranda statement: “You have the right to remain silent…”) Similarly, you use the phrase, “…rights are endowed by the Creator… not mankind. Thusly, government’s duty is to PROTECT those rights.” With the definitions I use, I disagree with this assertion. I agree that we have innate natural rights – We are creatures with the natural capacity (or natural right, as it were) to steal, use force to get our way, and commit any number of egregious acts. Through participation/membership in a nation, we enter into a social contract and relinquish a large number of these natural rights in return for civil liberties. This is a really good thing, as the rule of law (when applied consistently) protects us from each other and empowers us to get productive things done instead of worrying about defending ourselves from marauding bands of thieves and bandits. I assert that the government’s duty is to equitably and fairly enforce the rule of law to ensure that all of its citizens receive the benefits of their civil liberties. Part of doing this actually entails aggressive (and potentially violent) suppression of our innate natural rights. Taking this to an extreme, I’d assert that a nation never defends or protects a “right,” as it does not have the authority or ability to do so. Continuing with this extreme example: When we participate in a nation, we actually relinquish all of our natural rights in returns for the civil liberties that nation grants. Some, and even many, of those civil liberties may be identical (or near-identical) to the natural rights we relinquish, but this similarity does not make them equivalent. We’re in agreement that a government does not grant rights (I’m asserting that it grants civil liberties), but we disagree on what a government’s role is. I assert that government is based almost entirely on infringing upon the natural rights we have from birth, whereas you assert that government should protect those rights. Amusingly, I suspect that we’re actually on the same side in that both you and I want people to retain as much freedom and liberty – as much of their rights (or civil liberties that fastidiously mimic them) as possible.
Respectfully,
Jonathan L.
So when government become more and more powerful we relinquish more and more of our natural rights for less civil liberties? I argue the Constitution and Bill of Rights are meant to protect natural inalienable rights and ensure government is subordinate to them. Why did the founders divide powers of government into three equal branches and overlay the Bill of Rights if not to protect individual sovereignty?
Year of Audie Murphy’s birth is wrong. June 20, 1925
July 6 keeps coming up July 1
Thaks, Reed!
I’ve fixed it (look at the URL and you’ll see what the problem was). You may have to flush your browser cache.
July 31 comes up as July 1, changing the URL in my browser has no effect. Thanks
Should be fixed now. You may have to flush your browser cache.
Thanks to all for putting up with the bugs from moving the blog. Especially those of you, like Alison, who have brought these issues to my attention.
Lincoln’s birthday is Feb 12th not March 12th…
Right you are. Thanks for that. Kind of an odd error….. Hmmmm.
I use excerpts from your site as a lead-in for a sometimes boring daily report. Guess what? The engineers are reading it and commenting. Thanks,
Outstanding.
The April 30th events are from April 1st
Fixed it, Leonard. Thanks!
I know this if off topic but I’m looking into starting my own weblog and was curious what all
is needed to get setup? I’m assuming having a blog like yours would cost a pretty penny?
I’m not very web savvy so I’m not 100% certain. Any recommendations or
advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
This is free, but for the time I spend on it.
There are a lot of hosting sites. This one is WordPress, I’ve used Blogger and LiveJournal. All three of those are free.
Sept 7th keeps coming up as Sept 1. Great site though Thank You
I’ll fix it.
Done. Same problem would have affected anyone trying to access the 3rd through the 6th.
To whom it may concern
The last few days I have been unable to use the nav calender Sep 6 7 8 9
I fixed the links yesterday. You may need to clear you browser cache.
September is still not working. Click on the 9th and get a NOTHING FOUND message.
Please try now.
Tried clearing browsing history and cache to no avail… getting nothing found consistently for 09 September. :-(
Please try now.
Please add to November:
12th-1776 Margaret Corbin along with some 600 American soldiers, crews one of two cannons. When her husband falls, Margaret takes his place at his cannon and continues firing until she is seriously wounded. She later becomes first woman in U.S. history to receive a pension from Congress for military service.
Source: Wikipedia
Len Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:09:32 +0000 To: ltavernetti@hotmail.com
Done, however, the defense of Fort Washington was November 16th.
You are correct. She was born on the 12th.
Looks like September is a month of “issues”, ayuh? The 14th keeps coming up nothing found, and changing URL in browser has no effect.
I’m doing updates, one day at a time, and it’s requiring a URL update on the calendar. Try pasting this directly into your browser:
Now September 15 is coming up – Nothing Found.
Yesterday’s information and tomorrow’s information comes up but not today’s information.
http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache
That has instructions for clearing the cache (not history) of most browsers.
Okay. There’s a big difference between viewing the blog on the machine where the edits are made and on a different machine. My apologies if it seems I’ve been pushing this off as your problem–I continued to research the issue and finally found out what was going on.
I was trying to edit several days of material and schedule the posting date to coincide with each day–trouble is that WordPress changes the link when the publication date is changed and the old URL is no longer available, even before the publication is scheduled.
So, to minimize disruption, I will have to give up the idea of pre-posting. Would have been nice.
October 3 page is not found… fyi
It was just updated. If you refresh your browser and retry the link it should work.
what widget or plugin did you use for your quick navigation calendar? i want to add a ‘this day in u2 history’ to my blog. thank you.
If you want, I’ll send you the code. It is a bear to edit, if you have a good text editor and know how to use the advanced features that will help a lot.
oh wow. sounds difficult, but yes if you wouldn’t mind. my email is deenadietrich@gmail.com. thank you.
Wonderful site, thanks much for doing it.
The first two weeks of May have bad links.
I’ve fixed the first week. Didn’t find a problem in the second.
The issue is that I am updating the last 10 years, and that changes the link–I was tardy in changing the home calendar links. Please bear with me–it all results in improvements eventually.
Thanks for posting this incredible information. I am requesting to post some of the history in my newsletter.
Absolutely. Feel free. A link back woud be appreciated, if possible.
As a member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Redlands CA, I make a card each month with your histories to include in the gift bags I hand out to veterans in the Loma Linda VA Hospital as a reminder that “We Haven’t Forgot”.
Thank you for such a helpful record! Not only is it very entertaining for a veteran and military history buff like myself. But it’s also instrumental, each morning, in helping me decide which of the five armed forces flags to raise with “Old Glory.”
Thanks,
J McCulley
RLTW
I have to say, this is a great place to see the military history of the world. I am the admin on Facebook for VFW 1037 in Waupaca, WI and I have started to use this as one of the main places to get facts of our military past. I am trying to put a note up everyday for the followers of the page and much of the information is from here. Keep up the great work!