Shiloh: Conquer or Perish Timothy B. Smith University of Kansas Press $34.95 Only the […]
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Book Review: The Chickamauga Campaign
The Chickamauga Campaign: A Mad Irregular Battle— From the Crossing of the Tennessee River […]
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Book Review: The Man Who Would Not Be Washington
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War Jonathan Horn […]
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Lincoln’s Last Witness: James Tanner and the Assassination of Lincoln
By the time Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, James R. Tanner had seen […]
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A Dead Horse at Antietam
Early in my career as a historian, I spent hours looking through picture files […]
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Edwin Stanton’s Whipping Boy
At war’s end, the Secretary of War deliberately misrepresented William T. Sherman’s actions, in […]
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Interview: John Wilkes Booth / Celebrity Assassin
Fortune’s Fool, Terry Alford’s new biography of John Wilkes Booth, is the first full-length examination of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin in nearly a century.
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Civil War Times- News June 2015
Galena Marks the War’s End The East Coast doesn’t have a monopoly on commemorating […]
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Insight: Gettysburg’s Great Historian
In the fall of 1985, when I learned that Harry had a big manuscript […]
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Daily Quiz for December 9, 2016
In 1870 the US Congress established this Cabinet level government department.