About the Site

Draw the Sword is the online journal of Jenny Goellnitz, an avid runner, cancer survivor, and student of the Civil War. About Jenny.

If you're here for the monuments, check out the Gettysburg Monument Project page.

Essential Information

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Categories

• Administrative
• Civil War
• Everything Else
• Hodgkin's Disease
• Monument Project
• Running
• The Law

Recently Written

Blog last updated 8 months, 7 days ago.

• 32nd Massachusetts Infantry
• a few recent pictures
• 14th Indiana Infantry
• 5th United States Cavalry
• 1st New York Artillery Battery C

Best of the Blog

Highlighting a few favorite posts.

• An Essay About Running
• Advice on Bad Runs
• Proverbial Forest of Stone
• And Then Hill Came Up
• Dr. Hodgkin and His Disease

Other Projects

• And Then A.P. Hill Came Up
• Stonewall's Surgeon: Dr. Hunter McGuire
• The Wheatfield at Gettysburg

I also write for Running Times; check out my web column in the editorial section of the site. Also please feel free to read my reflections on a year with cancer over on my homepage. It's probably one of the better things I've written.

Photography Projects

• My Photo 365 Blog (a photo diary)
• My My Picassa Albums (a collection of my best photographs)

Archives

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Blogroll and Links

Starting a blog? Check out these awesome titles as far as I know, all still available!

Historians

• 48th Pennsylvania Infantry
• Battlefield Portraits
• Behind AotW
• Blog 4 History
• BooksFilmandMusic
• bull runnings
• Civil War Bookshelf
• Civil War Memory
• Civil War Missouri
• Crossed Sabers
• Gettysburg Photographs
• Hoofbeats & Cold Steel
• Michigan Civil War Blog
• My Civil War Notes
• My year of living Rangerously
• One Mans Rebellion Record
• Pinstripe Press
• Rantings of a Civil War Historian
• Shiloh Nick
• The Blood of My Kindred
• Throwing down the Gauntlet
• To the Sound of the Guns
• TOCWOC
• Women of the Civil War

Runners

• All Roads Lead to Oneself
• Ben
• Bittersweet Symphony
• Geekgirl
• Get out there …
• Great Lakes (Lisa)
• ithink2020
• Running From Guam
• Shore Turtle
• The Gazelle Gazette

Warriors

• Is Dan a Lymphomanic?
• Jennethink

Web Sites

• Codori Family Homepage
• Tom Eishen

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