The Secret War for the Union, by Edwin C. Fishel, Houghton Mifflin Company, New […]
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Book Review: To the North Anna River (By Gordon C. Rhea): ACW
New books tackle the 1864 Virginia bloodletting, Walt Whitman and campaigns in the Confederate […]
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Book Review: CHANCELLORSVILLE (Stephen W. Sears) : AH
CHANCELLORSVILLE, by Stephen W. Sears (University of South Carolina Press, 203 pages, $29.95). Sears,acknowledged […]
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Book Review: French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Leonard E. Opdycke) : AH
French aircraft designers leapt headlong into the future before World War I. By Walter […]
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Book Review: HISTORY MAKERS / INTERVIEWS BY FRED SCHULTZ
HISTORY MAKERS: INTERVIEWS BY FRED SCHULTZ, by Fred Schultz, Naval Institute Press, $27.95. Fred […]
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Book Review: MATHEW BRADY AND THE IMAGE OF HISTORY (by Mary Panzer) : AH
THE AMERICAN WEST: LIVING THE FRONTIER DREAM MATHEW BRADY AND THE IMAGE OF HISTORY, […]
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Book Review: Spitfire: The Canadians
Spitfire: The Canadians, by Robert Bracken, Boston Mills Press, Erin, On- tario, Canada, 1995, […]
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Battle of Gettysburg: Major Eugene Blackford and the Fifth Alabama Sharpshooters
As fighting swirled all around the little town of Gettysburg, Major Eugene Blackford and his sharpshooters infiltrated the usually quiet streets to snipe at Union soldiers often mere paces away. It was dangerous duty, but also a sort of reckless sport.
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Civil War Times: May 2000 Editorial
CURSES! TOGETHER AGAIN! The United States was back, but not everyone was happy about […]
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Undermining the Molly McGuires
A series of violent crimes was plaguing Pennsylvania’s coal country. Mine owners placed the blame on a secret society of Irishmen–and took steps to wipe it out.