PUBLICATIONSby Hugh T. Harrington Hugh has been studying and researching history, the War Between the States, and the Revolutionary War since childhood. He is also an expert on Sherlock Holmes and Annie Abbott, the "Little Georgia Magnet." Below is his research that has appeared in print. |
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Hugh shooting his flintlock. |
One-Legged Rufus Kelly Defends the Little Town of Gordon – Alone, Georgia Backroads, Winter 2005, vol. 4, number 4, p. 36-38, (written with Alexandra Filipowska).
The Murder of Eleanor Bustin, and the Legend of Justice Lamar’s Suicide, Georgia Backroads, Autumn 2005, vol. 4, number 3, p. 18-22 (written with Eileen Babb McAdams).
Was Michael Shaw Hanged For A Crime He Did Not Commit?, Georgia Backroads, Spring 2005, vol. 4, number 1.p. 17-21.
Murder on Main Street, In Defense of a Lady's Honor, Georgia Backroads, Winter, 2004, vol. 3, number 4, p. 32+.
The Murder of Abner Zachry, Georgia Backroads, Autumn, 2004, vol. 3, number 3, p 53-55.
The Unusual Case of the Murder of Lemuel Smith, Georgia Backroads, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 2003, p. 20.
The Finney-Stanley Shooting, Georgia Backroads, Vol. 1, No. 4, Winter 2002, p. 48-49.
Milledgeville's Unusual Kenan-Strother Shootings, Georgia Backroads, Vol. 1, No. 3, Autumn 2002, p 35-39. (written with Lisa Ennis).
Mystery of Private Edwin Jemison, America's Civil War, vol. 20, number 2, May 2007, p. 28-33 (written with Alexa Filipowski).
Roundball Ballistics in the Revolutionary War; What Caused Rifle Shots to Go Over the Heads of the Enemy, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, May 2006, vol. 3, number 5, p. 12-13.
"The Enemy are Hounded," General "Mad" Anthony Wayne's 1782 Savannah Campaign, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, April 2006, vol. 3, number 4, p. 32-36.
Civil War Milledgeville: Tales from the Confederate Capital of Georgia, published by The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2005.
Medical Treatment for a Scalped Head, Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, September 2005, vol. 2, number 9, p. 35-36, (written with Lisa A. Ennis).
A Yankee Hero of Gettysburg and a Georgia Connection, Georgia Backroads, Autumn 2005, vol. 4, number 3, p. 55-60, (written with Anne Buckner Burgamy).
Searching for Private Jemison, Georgia Backroads, Summer 2005, vol.
4, number 2, p. 44-47 (written with Alexa Filipowski).
"Unknown" Confederate Dead Identified in Milledgeville Cemetery, Georgia
Backroads, Spring 2005, vol. 4, number 1, p. 40-44.
Where Does Private Edwin Jemison Rest?, America's Civil War, Vol. 17, No. 2, May 2004, p. 32-38, (written with Alexa Filipowski).
UDC Magazine (United Daughters of the Confederacy), unattributed & untitled article about my 2003 identification of the Unknown Soldiers in Milledgeville's Memory Hill Cemetery, May, 2004, p. 33.
Joseph Howland Bill, M.D., Arrow Wounds and Treatments on the Western Frontier…a fatality greater then that produced by any other weapon, The EHistory Bulletin (see http://ehistory.freeservers.com/), Vol. 2, January, 2003. (Written with Lisa Ennis).
'Mad' Anthony Wayne: His Body Did Not Rest in Peace. On the Trail: A Journal for Historical Trekkers, Re-enactors, and Students of Living History, Vol 10, No. 2, March/April 2003, pp. 47-49. (Written with Lisa Ennis).
Surviving a Scalping: James Robertson's Frontier Treatment, On the Trail: A Journal for Historical Trekkers, Re-enactors, and Students of Living History, Vol. 9 No. 5, September/October, 2002, p. 38-39. (written with Lisa Ennis).
A Telescopic Sight in the American Revolution, Or, "A Riffle With a Tellescope to it," Muzzle Blasts, April 2001.
Patriot Riflemen During the Ammunition Crisis at the Siege of Boston in 1775, Muzzle Blasts, January 2001.
The Legendary Tim Murphy, Marksman of Bemis Heights, Muzzle Blasts, July 2000.
"...A Piece of American Workmanship..." Or, The Long Shot of September 1776, Muzzle Blasts, April 2000
Book Review: A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, by Lawrence E. Babits, Muzzle Blasts, April 2002, p 45.
Buffington Sight Adjustment Tool For The Trapdoor Springfield, The Single Shot Exchange, August 2005, vol. 15, number 2, p. 44-46.
My First Rifle Waits 45 Years to be Fired, The Single Shot Exchange, July 2005, vol. 15, number 1, p. 26-30.
"The Legendary Tim Murphy, Marksman of Bemis Heights" has been reprinted as "The Man Who Shot Simon Fraser, The Legendary Tim Murphy, Marksman of Bemis Heights" published in The Friends of Saratoga Battlefield newsletter The Battlements, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2004, p. 1.
Book Review: The Courage to be Free, by Charleton Heston, Muzzle Blasts, February 2002, p. 64.(Written with Lisa A. Ennis)
The "Georgia Wonder" Phenomenon, The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) sponsored by the Georgia Humanities Council (a Web-based resource that will present a comprehensive and thoughtful portrayal of the State of Georgia), http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2906, February 12, 2004. (Written with Steven Brehe and Susan J. Harrington).
Dixie Haygood: Annie Abbott -- The Little Georgia Magnet, Bicentennial insert of The Union-Recorder (Milledgeville, Georgia daily newspaper), Section III, September 27, 2003, pp. 4, 6. (Written with Susan Harrington).
How the Annie Abbott Act Was Performed, The Linking Ring (published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians), Vol. 83, No. 6, June 2003, pp. 50-53. (Written with Susan Harrington). This article, along with the one below received "Award of Outstanding Merit for the Best Series Published in The Linking Ring magazine" for 2003.
Annie Abbott, The Little Georgia Magnet, The Linking Ring (published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians), Vol. 83, No. 5, May 2003, pp. 40-48. (Written with Susan Harrington).
Georgia's Dixie Haygood: The Original Annie Abbott and "Little Georgia Magnet," Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXXXVI, No. 3, Fall 2002, p. 423-448. (Written with Susan Harrington).
Historic Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1804-1997, co-edited with Susan J. Harrington and Floride Moore Gardner, 1998. Published by Boyd Publishing Company, Milledgeville, GA (759 pages).
This book provides an every-name index to Milledgeville's first city cemetery, from 1804 on, including 1807 to 1868 (when Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia). The book also provides maps for locating graves and a brief tour of the cemetery.
The Dead Book: Burials in the City Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1869-1904, co-edited with Susan J. Harrington, 1998. Published by Boyd Publishing Company, Milledgeville, GA (165 pages).
This book is a transcription of the city's record of burials in Milledgeville's first city cemetery, from 1869 to 1904. It contains the name, birth place, age, cause of death, race, and death date of each individual. The book includes the names of many people who are not in the Historic Memory Hill Cemetery book above, for many people are in unmarked graves.
Methodist Church Record Books, Milledgeville, Georgia 1811-1876, 1997. Published by Boyd Publishing Company, Milledgeville, GA (307 pages).
Re: Sherlock, A Collection of Observations and Commentaries. Canada: George A. Vanderburgh (E-mail: gav@bmts.com), Publisher. 2005. |
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Profile of a Scionist: Clifton R. Andrew, in Irregular Proceedings of the Mid 'Forties, Chapter Seven, edited by Jon Lellenberg. Published in 1995 by Fordham University Press. |
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Harrington's Canonical Index, 1988, a 133 page index-concordance of the Doubleday one volume edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. This research tool received favorable reviews in The Baker Street Journal and Baker Street Miscellanea. It is arguably the best index of its kind. |
A Family Matter Was Holmes's Research (My Ancestors Were Country Squires) Canadian Holmes, St. Jean Baptiste Day 1987
Why We Return Again to Sherlock Holmes Canadian Holmes, Lady Day 1988
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle As Colourman Canadian Holmes, Lady Day 1989
With Five Volumes You Could Just Fill That Gap, Quarterly Statement, August 1989
Sherlock Holmes and the Kohlberg Theory of Moral Development, Tails of the Giant Rats, 1990
The Sherlockian's Wife in Tails of the Giant Rats, 1990, and in Wheelwrightings, May 1990
Stapleton's Solution Sherlock Holmes Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2, Summer 1993
The Eyes of Sherlock Holmes Baker Street Miscellanea, No. 72, Winter 1992
Battle Between Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Wheelwrightings, May 1990
On the Eye Color of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Characters, ACD - The Journal of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Spring 1991
Anna The Nihilist, Detective Plugs & Dottles, November 1990
The Most Overdressed Man in the Canon Wheelwrightings, January 1991
"Moonshine is a Brighter Thing Than Fog" Plugs & Dottles, June 1991
Violet Hunter, A Quite Exceptional Woman Canadian Holmes, Lady Day 1992
"A Curiously Reptilian Fashion" Plugs & Dottles, April 1991
"Her Violet Eyes Shining" Plugs & Dottles, May 1991
Some Strange Facts About the Tale of the Dancing Men Plugs & Dottles, August 1991
The Date of Malplaquet Plugs & Dottles, September 1991
Insurance in the Canon with Robert N. Brodie, BSI, Baker Street Journal, September 1992
The Adventure of the Unidentified Picture Baron Gruner's Diary, October 1992
Charles Stumpp Baker Street Journal, September 1993
Canonical Thinking Plugs & Dottles, August 1993
Dead Bodies on Baker Street Plugs & Dottles, December 1993
I Never Met Clif Andrew Clifton R. Andrew, Gasogene, October 18, 1993
Colonel Spence Munro Plugs & Dottles, October 1994
"Watson, you are a British Jury," with Debi Pollard, Canadian Holmes, summer 1997.
Touched by Sherlock Holmes, The Holmes Front, July 1999.
I shook the Hand of Holmes, The Holmes Front, October 1999.