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“All history proves that music is as indispensable to warfare as money; and money has been called the sinews of war. Music is the soul of Mars.” — New York Herald, 1862 * * * Chris Mackowski: “Bobby Horton and ‘The Kennesaw Line,’” an interview and additional resources—Web Exclusive Dan Welch: “The Civil […]
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CHAPTER FOUR: The Creation of Fredericksburg National Cemetery Photos · Additional Resources Photos Brig. Gen. Thomas Meagher led the Irish Brigade at the Battle of Fredericksburg. * * * These two images together show a cross-section of the national cemetery at its northern end. The “Stone Wall,” in the left image, runs along the […]
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CHAPTER FOUR: “’The Heavyest Blow Yet Given the Confederacy’: The Emancipation Proclamation Changes the Civil War” by Kevin Pawlak Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Students will sometimes ask me, “If you could time travel and witness one […]
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by Diana Dretske * * * “New Flag for 96th Ill.,” Waukegan Weekly Gazette, November 7, 1863 Article in the Waukegan Weekly Gazette announcing a subscription to raise money to procure a new flag for the “glorious 96th Reg’t.” After the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, the citizens of Lake and […]
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Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory by Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill “Engaging the Civil War” Series Southern Illinois University Press, 2020 Click here for ordering information When it came to the Wild West, the nineteenth-century press rarely let truth get in the way of a good story. James Butler […]
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by Constance Hall Jones The following PDF file is a Google Books Scan of the original What is Our True Policy? * * * The “Engaging the Civil War” Series is published by Southern Illinois University Press in collaboration with Emerging Civil War.
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CHAPTER FIVE: Toward a More Permanent Cemetery Photos · Additional Resources Photos Over time many of Fredericksburg’s markers have become soiled, such as this headstone of Charles Alsop and the block marking the grave of four unidentified soldiers buried in plot #4073. * * * These memorials on the graves of unknown soldiers are […]
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CHAPTER FIVE: “The Cresting Tide: Robert E. Lee and the Road to Chancellorsville” by Kristopher D. White Commentary · Images · Additional Resources · Suggested Reading · About the Author Commentary By Brian Matthew Jordan, co-editor, “Engaging the Civil War” Series Noah Brooks remembered that May afternoon in vivid detail. “Never as long as I […]
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by Diana Dretske * * * “Mother of the Regiment,” Mrs. Gen. John C. Smith Mrs. Charlotte Gallagher Smith was affectionately called the “Mother of the Regiment” by the soldiers of the 96th Illinois. Charlotte Smith (1838-1915) was the wife of Lt. Col. John C. Smith (1932-1910) of Galena, Illinois. Mrs. Smith and […]
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