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Peter Kurtz


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Montclair, New Jersey, The United States
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Peter Kurtz was born in New Jersey and grew up in Mansfield, Ohio. A 1981 journalism graduate of Ohio University, Kurtz has worked as a jazz disc jockey, freelance magazine writer, newspaper film critic, and technical writer and editor. He and his wife Lynn have two children and three grandchildren and currently live in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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“as well as Master Badger himself. Perhaps Samuel”
Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“seventy-six miles west of Brunswick, on the Piscataqua River that separates Maine from New Hampshire, another player in the American Civil War began life in 1828. Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, however, the ship William Badger received no honors for her struggle to preserve the Union. In fact, she warrants only a brief”
Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“were on their way to Fort Fisher.” John Hedrick also missed the elusive Grant but mentioned that he “went all round town on foot.”4 More disturbing news in Beaufort occurred on March 20. That evening, on the North River Road just outside town, a soldier wielding a double-barreled shotgun”
Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865



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