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Tag Archives: Garfield
The man in the corner…
Colonel Anson Stager is not exactly a household name, even to many students of the Civil War. If your reading has taken you into the arcana of military codes, or if you are a fan of late 19th Century industrialization, … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Newspapers, Politics, Western Theater
Tagged Chickamauga, Garfield, Memory, Rosecrans, Stager, Stanton
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James Garfield & The Civil War: An Interview with Author Dan Vermilya
Here’s one I’ve been waiting for for a while: Dan Vermilya’s new book James Garfield & The Civil War (History Press, 2015). Of course, I’m eyeball-deep in other stuff at the moment and can’t dig into the book like I … Continue reading
Why Garfield?
I bought a book the other day. For me, I could say that almost any day of the year, because, well, I buy a lot of books. I love the things. This book caught my eye because it was about … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Book Review, Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Federal
Tagged books, Chickamauga, Garfield, Rosecrans
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On the Deaths of Presidents
I’m going to pull the lens back a little bit and note the near-congruence of Lincoln’s passing with the 70th Anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt’s death on April 12, 1945. Death of a President in office, whether by assassination (Lincoln, Garfield, … Continue reading