In war, even when you win, you lose. The ETO cost Americans 550,000 casualties in 11 months of high intensity combat. Casualties in our current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are smaller, certainly, but what is the reality behind the numbers?
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Peter Carmichael, Director of The Civil War Institute
Education that spans generations: Peter Carmichael takes the helm of Gettysburg College’s Civil War […]
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Segways appear at Fredericksburg NMP
Segways slipping silently across the battlefield might resemble the charge of the very, very […]
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Lincoln Campaigns in New Hampshire
A wonderfully intimate glimpse of Lincoln the public speaker comes to us from his trip to New Hampshire in 1860 to visit his eldest son, Robert, at Phillips Exeter Academy.
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Daily Quiz for September 3, 2010
Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly dismissed the British people as a nation of this.
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Emancipation Proclamation returns to the White House
This past June, while the sputtering economy, seemingly bottomless oil spill and the war […]
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Daily Quiz for September 2, 2010
The Union general who fought a successful delaying action at Monocacy Junction, Maryland, to protect Washington City in July 1864 later wrote this classic book.
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The Overmountain Men Battle for the Carolinas
At the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, backwoods hunters known as the overmountain men bested the British
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Was Secession Legal
Southerners insisted they could legally bolt from the Union. Northerners swore they could not. […]