On the Power of Storytelling and the American Civil War

St. Bonaventure University has me featured in a video on its Facebook page as part of a series called “Open Office Hours.” We can’t embed the video for you at the moment, but you can check it out here. Sit down with journalism professor Chris Mackowski as he talks about the Civil War. Post your […]

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Hiram’s Honor: Reliving Private Terman’s Civil War

Hiram’s Honor: Reliving Private Terman’s Civil War, by Dr. Max Terman, is Civil War fiction based very closely on Civil War fact. Max Terman’s ancestor is real-life Ohio volunteer Private Hiram Terman, who marched, camped, shivered, ached, fought and was taken prisoner as a member of the 82nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His life has been […]

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The Dead of “Hellmira”

A few weeks ago, I visited the former site of the Civil War prison in Elmira, New York. At the time, I recalled a quote from David Blight’s Race and Reunion, which said, “The infamous sites of Civil War prisons…were forever ‘those places of terrible memory.’” While the prison site remains mostly forgotten—commemorated by a […]

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A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862-1863

Robert E. Lee and his vaunted Army of Northern Virginia are often remembered as the best army the South was able to put in the field. Their storied marches, leaders, and victories have become the stuff of legend. Lee was able to take an army, that was in reality a conglomeration, from the back door […]

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Site Updates

We have been working behind the scenes this week to improve the site! We have added many new headers. These are some great pictures of numerous battlefields we have visited over the last 10 years. We have also added a Submission Guidelines page to the header bar. We have been contacted by numerous authors wanting […]

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Working on the Site

We just wanted to give everyone a heads up that we have been working on updating the site. Please bear with us as we tweak this and that. We hope you will like the additions and changes.

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