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You are most welcome, BroJoeK. It has been a rewarding task I assigned myself. Now it feels like I have retired again, as I don’t have to prep NY Times and Harper’s Weekly posts to stay ahead of the calendar.

Thank you for your expert contributions to my posts, Civil War and WWII both. We’ve been doing it for many years now, and your posts have always increased thread value. That goes for all the readers who have contributed over the years. Your encouragement picked me up and kept me going when I grew weary.

I don’t plan to launch any more history projects. Instead I would like to get more involved in church life (Roman Catholic variety). The onset of Covid and government restrictions of freedom ruined my relationship with my original parish and kept me from attending elsewhere for for a couple years. Then I found a new church home in a nearby Salesian parish and, now that I have recovered from back-to-back knee replacements, I am taking up some lay minister duties. There is not much of an internet opportunity in all this, but you might see some church-related postings from me form time to time.

I am thinking of finding a way to put links to all my Civil War threads somewhere so they can be accessed without having to scroll backwards through my posting history. That could be a resource for anyone who wants to see what the NY Times and Harper’s Weekly were publishing on any given day from the 1860 Republican National Convention through the Grand Review of the Union Armies. I will welcome suggestions on how to do that.