Shiloh: Confederate High Tide in the Heartland Steven E. Woodworth, Praeger In crafting a […]
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‘You promised that you would come home’: Letters Between a Husband and Wife
The letters between Madison Bowler and his wife Lizzie reflect the strains imposed by […]
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Mosby’s Female Super Spy: Antonia Ford
Antonia Ford found the love of her life while she was incarcerated in the […]
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‘Cowards of the Army’: Straggling in the Civil War
Straggling became a major problem for both armies by 1862, as war-weary soldiers began […]
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Cinematic Slavery
You pull open the door and walk into the movie theater’s lobby, greeted with […]
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Sky Above, Mud Below
Only those who endured the shrieking shells, stagnant water, creeping rats and rotting corpses could truly convey the horrors of World War I trench warfare
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Firing Joe Hooker
Just days before the Battle of Gettysburg, Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton tasked […]
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Hometown Pride- Civil War Times April 2014
The sun was out, and the air was bright, clear and clean, but a […]
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Interview: Thomas A. Bogar / Drawing the Curtain on Lincoln’s Assassination
Nothing thrills a writer more than a new story, and theater scholar Thomas Bogar […]
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Brigadier General Wilma Vaught (U.S. Air Force, Ret.)
Vaught helped spearhead creation of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery