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Book Review: Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War ( Eric Mills) : ACW

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/22/2016

Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War, by Eric Mills, Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, Md., $29.95. […]

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Book Review: Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston (Nathaniel C. Hughes, Jr.) : ACW

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/22/2016

Near the war’s end, Confederate General Johnston struck one last, telling blow at Sherman’s […]

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by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/22/2016

Irish-born Confederate General Patrick Cleburne earned the high accolade, ‘the Stonewall of the West.’ […]

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General John Buford, by Edward Longacre (Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Pa., $24.95). Union Brigadier General […]

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Raising Holy Hell, by Bruce Olds, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1995, $22.50. […]

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by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/22/2016

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Book Review: Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (By Jerome Loving) : ACW

by Roy Morris, Jr.8/11/20018/22/2016

The Civil War saved Walt Whitman, and in turn he helped save thousands of Civil War soldiers.

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