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Chief Joseph: If not for Howard, “there would have been no war”

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Chris Mackowski

My favorite description of Oliver Otis Howard comes from historian Frank O’Reilly, who has called him “pious but vapid.” After the twin disasters that befell Howard’s Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville and then, two months later, at Gettysburg, it’s always been … Continue reading →

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