If you love history we are seeking comments and sponsors to support this column. Contact Bobat robertmford@aol.com for details. Frontal assaults on an entrenched position rarely work. I get the idea, throwing a massive group of men at the enemy’s main line, designed to overwhelm them for a quick decisive victory. There’s a fine line
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Generally speaking, Abraham Lincoln had a big problem during the Civil War … many of his top generals didn’t get along. Between some of them it was so contemptuous they sabotaged each other’s strategies and actions, costing soldiers lives. Fact is, to become a general you had to be
Continue Reading This article is written for News-Press NOW, The St Joseph Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and Missouri’s Highway 36 Heritage Alliance. From path to trail to railroad and now the “Genius” Highway 36, this famed coast-to-coast route through Northern Missouri has the All-American story, not just about the towns and the nation it connected, but the
Continue Reading If you love history, we are seeking comments and sponsors to support this column. Contact Bob at Robertmford@aol.com for details. Opening Day, those two words alone make you feel like a kid heading home to your own birthday party! Baseball is a metaphor for life with so many parallels. It has been my distinct pleasure to
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