Hugh Dubrulle
@hughdubrulle.bsky.social
History Department, St. Anselm College | European Historian | Civil War Historian | Author of Ambivalent Nation: How Britain Imagined the American Civil War | Working on New Hampshire and the Civil War | Perpetually disappointed Tottenham Hotspur fan
Looking over my notes, I recently rediscovered a document that provides a perspective on the Civil War that you won't often find--that of a young, naive French-Canadian substitute who didn't speak a word of English and was apparently manipulated into volunteering.
The Long Strange Trip of Bazile Bouchard
Although I doubt that my subscribers have been lying awake at night wondering what’s become of me, I must apologize for having neglected this blog for almost seven months. I can only plead that tho…
5thnewhampshirevolunteerinfantry.home.blog
December 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Looking over my notes, I recently rediscovered a document that provides a perspective on the Civil War that you won't often find--that of a young, naive French-Canadian substitute who didn't speak a word of English and was apparently manipulated into volunteering.
You can find the report here. The problem is universal across traditional four-year institutions, it just presents itself in exaggerated form at a place like Harvard.
We Need to Talk About Harvard’s Grade-Inflation Report
The nation’s oldest university is awarding A’s on the regular. Is that a problem?
www.chronicle.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
You can find the report here. The problem is universal across traditional four-year institutions, it just presents itself in exaggerated form at a place like Harvard.
160 years ago on this date, Henry Wirz was executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to injure the lives of federal POWs and commiting murder as well as acts of cruelty.
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
160 years ago on this date, Henry Wirz was executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to injure the lives of federal POWs and commiting murder as well as acts of cruelty.
Posting the link to the last entry on my blog (July 2025). Too busy researching, writing, and teaching to post recently. Hope to post over X-mas break regarding research into the 5th New Hampshire’s bounty men and substitutes. 5thnewhampshirevolunteerinfantry.home.blog/2025/07/07/s...
Stephen Emery’s Fractured Ulna
Last week, I was at the National Archives in Washington, DC, combing through the compiled service records of soldiers in the 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry (RG 94), when I ran across Stephen …
5thnewhampshirevolunteerinfantry.home.blog
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Posting the link to the last entry on my blog (July 2025). Too busy researching, writing, and teaching to post recently. Hope to post over X-mas break regarding research into the 5th New Hampshire’s bounty men and substitutes. 5thnewhampshirevolunteerinfantry.home.blog/2025/07/07/s...