I have posted the fascinating story of a lock of President Abraham Lincoln’s hair, discovered in the jewelry box of Laura Wolcott Gibbs, the sister of Alfred Gibbs, which became a news story of the day. I have transcribed several accounts linked to a much larger document that follows this story throughout the decades. You […]

I have made significant headway in digitizing many of my paper-based documents. Only about ten percent of these documents are posted; there is much for those hardcore Dragoons and Gibbs researchers to read. I have the NARRATIVE OF A DOCTOR’S EXPERIENCE COMBATANT IN THE FALL OF 1860 and the NARRATIVE Surrender of a Command of […]

I have finished uploading all of the Regimental History of the First New York Dragoons chapters. I have put a table of contents at the top of each page that links to the original headings. I am thinking of adding headers to some of the posts to make browsing the pages more Internet-friendly, which the […]

I have finished with the scanned copy of Bowen’s Regimental History, and I have edited and moved these edits to a Google Doc, which I am using as the repository for the pages on the website.  Over the next few weeks, I will add the pages to this site. I will be adding images taken […]