Angry farmers turn a Wisconsin town into a battlefield when they riot against conscription in November 1862.
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Greybeards in Blue: George W. Kincaid and the 37th Iowa Infantry in America’s Civil War
George W. Kincaid, an eccentric Iowa farmer, raisesd a regiment of old-timers, the 37th Iowa Infantry, with hopes of one day leading them into battle.
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American Civil War: The 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The Twenty-Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment included two future presidents and an Army Commander.
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Lew Wallace’s American Civil War Career
Long before he published Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace rose from a career as an obscure small-town Indiana lawyer to take a prominent role in the Civil War.
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Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert Citino By Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper Harvard University Press, Cambridge, […]
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Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940 (Book Review)
Reviewed by Mary Kathryn Barbier By Norman Moss Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2004 The […]
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The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Institution (Book Review)
Reviewed by Conrad Crane By Charles T. O’Reilly and William A. Rooney McFarland, Jefferson, […]
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America’s Civil War: Loudoun Rangers
The Quaker-dominated Loudoun Rangers openly defied Virginia tradition to serve the Union.
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Countdown to Victory: The Final European Campaigns of World War II (Book Review)
Reviewed by Robert Citino By Barry Turner William Morrow, New York, 2004 It’s hard […]
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Sir Percy Wyndham: American Civil War Union Army’s Flamboyant English Cavalry Commander
Colorful and charismatic, Sir Percy Wyndham served the Union Army as a cavalry commander.