I’m at The Huntington Research Library this week and didn’t quite get my Reconstruction Era report ready before I disappeared into the archives.

Rest assured this week’s Reconstruction history post will appear over the weekend or as a double post Friday next week. It will be a book review on a fascinating saga that a blog reader recommended to me.

And now, I’ve got to go. Lunch break is almost over and I will finish reading an original  1864 pocket journal and take a look at some “missing ” battle reports for a colleague at Emerging Civil War.

I can’t take photos inside the library, but here’s my view from lunch.