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Joe Delmonaco - NYC

@joepd.bsky.social
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DM = Block if I don't know you. Things I love: American Civil War era history. Greece. Paris. New York City. Good food, good conversation, good music (of all kinds).

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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Cribbage Board of Peace. 😇
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This is worth watching. My inner Southern New England child was happy to hear actors using pretty good New Bedford ("New Bed-fid") working class accents. 😇
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
McConnell is speaking on the Senate floor right now, and his feebleness is painful to watch. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And the semi-literate insanity gallops onward.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And the semi-literate insanity gallp
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It's good to remember that the first group of people Hitler murdered was not the communists, or socialists, or democrats. They were conservatives. History has lessons for us, if we pay attention.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Patriots Bacon (starring Kevin Bacon)
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
General William S. Rosecrans in camp near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January 1863 by Adolph Metzner c. January 1863 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Lawrence Durrell - "Prospero's Cell"
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"pass the ketchup, por favor"
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
By Barry Blitt, The New Yorker
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The charge of the 8th Vermont at the Battle of Winchester by Alfred Waud Sept. 19, 1864 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Black soldier by Alfred Waud c. 1863 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thursday, January 29, 1863 Washington, DC The diary of Horatio N. Taft Clerk, US Patent Office "t has been a wintery day, the snow still lying on the ground but it has frozen very little. The streets are deep with “slush.” The City is very quiet.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Kitty Porn" 🤣
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I am not optimistic about SCOTUS ruling against Trump. I expect CJ Roberts will write the opinion himself and will torture logic and law just as he did in his immunity ruling.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
U.S. Frigate "Sabine" by Alfred Waud c. 1861 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
But we may soon hear of important successes in the South West and Hooker may soon strike a successful blow, and then, all will be right again, but today gold is 154. Got letters from home today, family all well. “Willie” would like to come back to Washington.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Tuesday, January 27, 1863 Washington, DC The diary of Horatio N. Taft Clerk, US Patent Office "This has been a wet drizzly day, one well calculated to give a person the 'blues,' and I think that almost every one has the 'blues' in view of our present state of affairs.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The U.S. steamer Search by Alfred Waud c, 1861(?) www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
12th Maine--19th corps driven out of their camp and over the earth works by Alfred Waud c. 1864 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And now, beware of rashness, beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories. Yours very truly A. Lincoln"
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And yet I think it best for your to know that there are some things in regard to which, I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and a skilful soldier, which, of course, I like.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Monday, January 26, 1863 Washington, DC President Abraham Lincoln to Major General Joseph Hooker "Major General Hooker: General, I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appears to me to be sufficient reasons. www.loc.gov/resource/lpr...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If it is true, it is well. I do not think he has confidence enough in himself, and I doubt whether the other officers have enough confidence in him. Who is to follow? Joseph Hooker, I think.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Capt Denison and Judge Phelps from Canandagua were there. From there I went down to 'Willards' to hear any news which might be stirring. It is reported there tonight that Genl Burnside has resigned the command of the 'Army of the Potomac.'
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
January 25, 1863 Washington, DC The diary of Horatio N. Taft Clerk, US Patent Office "Attended religious Service in the Senate Chamber this morning, heard Mr Conway from Cincinnati.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Hey! Trumpsheviks. You really don't want to fuck with Mainers. They're insane on a good day. Don't piss them off.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This man wouldn't know truth if it bit him on the dick. Not complicated.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This would lead to economic catastrophe for the USA. It would also be a violation of the trade treaty he himself negotiated. Treaties have the full force of Federal law. Imposition of such a tariff on Canada would be illegal.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
U.S. Gun Boat Cambridge by Alfred Waud c. 1861 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
U.S. Gunboat "Lockwood" by Alfred Waud c. 1861 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
U.S. Gun Boat "Fanny" by Alfred Waud c. 1861 www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
... and the army itself is now melting away by resignations of officers, and desertions, at a fearful rate. When drafting in the States has proved a failure, how is it ever to be recruited or preserved from utter ruin unless it soon wins a victory.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In the present fearful crisis, we have realy no Talented Statesman, no public Men (who are up to the “times”) directing the affairs of the Nation, no Military genius to direct our great 'Army of the Potomac,' ...
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Saturday, January 24, 1863 Washington, DC The diary of Horatio N. Taft Clerk, US Patent Office "Mild and pleasant today, not much like winter. We have passed a quiet day, no Stirring news afloat and no startling rumors.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump cannot do anything without the acquiescence of Congress. HIs "Board of Peace" is a violation of law without Congress. He can't unfreeze Russian assets without Congress. I repeat: the "Board of Peace" is a treaty, and must be ratified by 2/3 of the Senate.
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Friday, January 23, 1863 Washington, DC The diary of Gideon Welles US Secretary if the Navy "As I anticipated, continued and increasing abuses and much illicit traffic are going on under the army permits issued by General Dix to pass the blockade. I
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Friday, January 23, 1863 Richmond, VA The diary of John B. Jones Clerk, Confederate War Dept. "The Northern papers are filled with what purports to be the intercepted correspondence of Mr. Benjamin with Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Lord John Russell is berated.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The people would gain from it the enormous amt now paid for exchange, as the Govt Bills would be current everywhere and a legal tender, and to prevent any redu[n]dancy of circulation any surplus could be converted into 6 pr cent twenty year Govt Bonds.
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Joe Delmonaco - NYC @joepd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Congress seems disposed to meet Mr Chases views and I think that his financial scheme will be adopted in the main. That is for the Gov't to furnish the circulation for the whole country to give a uniform currency, and tax the present Bank circulation (Bills) out of existence.
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