At the beginning General Robert E. Lee decided to evacuate his army from the […]
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Examining the Appomattox Parole
We “hung upon Lee’s rear like a BloodHound after his Victim,” wrote a New […]
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Dead Horses in Sheridan’s Ashes
William Daniel Cabell of Norwood, Virginia, served the Confederacy as the captain of the […]
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One for the Books
If it’s good for nothing else, war is good for reading. Troops often find […]
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Book Review: The Robber Baron Who Gave Us Silicon Valley
Leland Stanford bribed, stole, and murdered his way to fame and acclaim.
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Insight: A Historian Explains How Republicans Misjudged the Threat of Secession
David M. Potter’s scholarship explains how the North saw Southern rhetoric as ‘crying wolf’
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Civil War Veterans’ Shocking Souvenirs: Bullets in Their Bodies
Decades after soldiers were wounded, bits of lead showed up in X-rays, or simply appeared
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How the Sites of Stonewall Jackson’s Wounding and Death Became Tourist Attractions
And why Stonewall Jackson’s arm has its own gravestone.
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Samuel Fuller and The Big Red One
Samuel Fuller reinvented the American war movie with such gritty classics as The Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets, and The Big Red One.
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Book Review: The Role of Rangers in the Civil War
Highly mobile hit-and-run warriors brought the war’s chaos to civilian doorsteps.