1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War […]
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ACW Book Review: President Lincoln- The Duty of a Statesman
President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman by William Lee Miller, Alfred A. Knopf, […]
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Caught With His Pants On
Gloating Union generals cooked up the myth that Jefferson Davis was captured in his […]
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Jeff Davis’ Fugitive Government
As Union forces capture Richmond, the Confederate president and his cabinet take a slow […]
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Uncle Abe Needs You! (really, really bad)
The Lincoln administration demanded more from Northern communities and trampled on constitutional rights as […]
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Heavy, Slow and Ugly
USS Lafayette and Choctaw, cargo ships converted to gunboats, ponderously patrolled the Mississippi River […]
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The Union’s savage politician who fought with sarcasm and wit
Thaddeus Stevens was still just a state representative in 1840 when popular New York […]
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Another Pohanka in the fight to save battlefields
In 1976, when Cricket Bauer Pohanka was at an age when many of her […]
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America’s Civil War Open Fire- September 2008
Grave robbers desecrate and loot Fort Craig, N.M., cemetery Last year, federal archaeologists exhumed […]
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Film Review: The Films of Thomas Ince
The Gray Sentinel (1913) Battle of Gettysburg (1913) Granddad (1913) Drummer Boy of the […]