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Freed Slaves Battle Small Pox and Other Diseases
Many escaped slaves succumbed to an implacable new foe: smallpox. On Christmas Eve 1862, […]
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Lights, Camera, Abe-Mania
How we remember Lincoln says more about us than it does about him. Was […]
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Interview: Donald C. Pfanz / In General Ewell’s Corner
Asked to present a paper on the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign at a Civil […]
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CWT Book Review: Surgeon in Blue
Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care Scott […]
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In Camp with Holcombe’s Legion
A long-lost Conrad Wise Chapman masterpiece comes to light. CONRAD WISE CHAPMAN was among […]
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‘Ethiopia’ On Broadway
New York City women tried to erase the memory of the Draft Riots by […]
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Pilgrimage to Gettysburg
Hundreds travel to Gettysburg to pay tribute to their ancestors at the battle’s 150th […]
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‘Brave But Vain Valor’: Letter from the Battle of Malvern Hill
Lieutenant George W. Finley’s previously unpublished letter describes the ordeal he and the 14th […]
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Blue and Gray: Poor George Gordon Meade
An unsent letter has plagued the general for more than 150 years. On July […]