Presentation on “The Forgotten Campaign – the origin and development of American Economic Warfare in WWII (1939-1941)” is this Wednesday at 7:00 PM by Dr. R. Ben Richards (Major, USA, ret).
We do offer a guided tour of the Antietam battlefield at the end of the HAAC conference on Friday October 24. It will also be conducted by Dr. James Slaughter.
P.S. Here are the first two presentations on Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 done by Dr. James F. Slaughter III.
This was done at the instigation of Dr. Shawn Woodford. He came up with the idea, sold it to me, designed the blog and did most of the really popular posts on the blog in those first four years. The first five posts (and the only posts in 2015) were:
As of 27 December, the blog has had 1,909 posts, or over 200 a year. We also have had at least 3,168 comments made to the blog. We did early on cross post the blog to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. We are currently cross posting to Twitter (now known as X), Blue Sky and Threads. See: We are on Blue Sky and Threads – The Dupuy Institute
Before there was the blog we did have an active forum: The Dupuy Institute Forum – powered by Infopop. We started it in March 2001 and it was very active for a few years. It was fueled primarily with postings by Richard Anderson, Niklas Zetterling, me and others. It was through the forum that we met Shawn Woodford. Over time it became less active, people moved on, and it was being spammed. As I was busy writing books and maintaining The Dupuy Institute, I no longer had the time to regularly patrol it and maintain it, so I locked out any new sign-ins (to stop the spamming). It has been inactive since then. We have considered re-establishing it, except there really needs to be someone to watch over and maintain a forum. That really cannot be me.
We have typically only cross-posted this blog to Twitter (now X). We sometimes cross posted to Facebook and Linkedin, but have not been able to do that regularly.
We are trying to expand out media outreach, especially as it is clear that there is not a single central town square. So our social media outreach includes:
He did end up in Murmansk in 1919. There was a mutiny on his ship the S. S. Nigeria. Below are the ship records describing the mutiny:
Crew list is here:
The discussion of activities on the ship leading up to the mutiny:
Note that three men refused to load coal. They did not consider it their work but would perform this work if paid one shilling per ton.
Note that the deck hands refused to discharge fifty empty coal bags to S. S. Competitor. They also used “threatening language.” “We are on deck but it is damned little we intend doing.”
And then: “Sailors & firemen, combined not to allow the Competitors crew to bunker S. S. Nigeria, thereby endangering the frozen meat supply for the whole of the Northern Russian Forces at Murmansk.”
And finally:
“An armed guard from HMS Glory arrive on board and arrested mutinous crew and took them away.”
Events after the mutiny:
It notes that “On going into Sailors and firemens forcastles we found a quantity of stones which were apparently pilfered from the British and American storerooms in the Nigeria. Also a sum of Russian money (3728 Rubles)”
Nine members of the crew “has this day been convicted and sentenced to various periods of imprisonment for continuing to refuse duty. One crew was “discharged fron the ship and pay a share of the expenses of the court. Three crew were to “pay share of expenese of the court and return to ship.”
Ten crew “has been payed off Articles. Wages deposited with H.B.M. Consul.”
“This day E. J Fox was drunk and was totaly incapable of performing his duties and using insolent language to the other ship’s officers and master…and will proceed to the U.K at his own expense. Wages in full have been handed to him in presence of H.B.M Consul.”
Anyhow, for better or worse, this is one of our family “war story” (from the Russian Civil War 1917-1923).
There were 34 men listed on the ship. Of those, 11 they “declined to report” on their “general conduct.” The other 23 men were rated “V.G.,” including my grandfather. One other man was discharged for medical reason. So, I am guessing that the S.S. Nigeria lost over 1/3rd of its crew during the voyage.
