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BookChat with David Silkenat, author of Raising the White Flag
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian David Silkenat, senior lecturer of American history at the University of Edinburgh. Silkenat is the author of Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the Civil … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Common Soldier, Ties to the War, USCT
Tagged Appomattox Court House, Bennett Place, BookChat, David Anderson, David Silkenat, David Twiggs, Dix-Hill, Fort Pillow, Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Lieber Code, Milliken's Bend, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Olustee, prisoner exchange, Raising the White Flag, San Antonio, Shenandoah, Simon Bolivar Buckner, surrenders, the crater, Ulysses S. Grant, UNC Press, Unconditional Surrender Grant, University of Edinburgh, USCT
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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Woodson’s Missourians At New Market
The marker sits near the orchard, within sight of the Bushong House on Virginia’s New Market Battlefield. It’s normally a peaceful, quiet scene on a typical twenty-first century day. We look closer to read the fading inscription in the limestone: … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Monuments
Tagged 62 Virginia Cavalry, Battle of New Market, battlefield markers, Bushong Farm, dismounted cavalry, Franz Sigel, John C. Breckenridge, John Imboden, markers-and-monuments-17, Missouri, New Market, prisoner exchange, Prisoners, Shenandoah Valley, Woodson's Missourians
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