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Eastern Theater versus Western Theater: Where the Civil War Was Won and Lost: Part Five
Part five in a series. This series was put together from one of my extended graduate school research papers. The sources used were the current research between 2007-2008, obviously the historiography of the Civil War expands on a monthly basis, thus some of the “current research” in the paper is no longer exactly current. ************** […]
Read more...The “Other” Lee
Mention the surname “Lee” to a Civil War enthusiast or quite possibly any American that sat through a high-school American History class and the name Robert E. Lee is the first one given in reply. Ask that Civil War enthusiast to mention another “Lee” that fought in the Civil War and that person would respond […]
Read more...The pause that refreshes
Who would have ever guessed that Stonewall Jackson would one day end up hawking Coca-Cola?
Read more...The Rashness of that Hour: Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate General Alfred Iverson
Review: Wynstra, Robert, J. The Rashness of that Hour, Politics, Gettysburg, and the Downfall of Confederate Brigadier General Alfred Iverson. Savas Beatie LLC; El Dorado Hills, CA, 2010. Pp. X, 408. ISBN 978-1-93271-88-3. Hardcover. $32.95. On July 1, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg started when elements of both the Confederate and Union armies bumped into each […]
Read more...Truth and Valor Wearing: Myles W. Keogh in the War of the Rebellion
The experiences of the various European immigrant groups who fought on both sides of the American Civil War are thoroughly documented by writers and historians. None, however, have captured the public’s imagination more than the Irish. In fact, the men who came from the Emerald Isle have reached the status of near pop icons within […]
Read more...The Road to Bennett Place
The road to Bennett Place started for me, as it did for William T. Sherman and Joe Johnston, in Manassas. Unlike the two army commanders, though, I’ve come here, to north-central North Carolina on the outskirts of Durham, with intent rather than through happenstance.
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