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The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 2: From the Etowah River to Kennesaw Mountain, May 20 – June 27, 1864. By David A. Powell. Maps, photographs…

both sides. It was a thin sheet of canvas coated with heatand pressure-treated gum rubber roughly 6 ½ x 3 ½ feet in dimensions. The rubber blanket…

following April, when the Confederates bombarded Fort Sumter and forced its surrender. This column will cover a fourth who, like the others, has a…

Over the years, many distinguished speakers and authors have informed and enlightened its members on a wide variety of subjects related to the Civil…

Thunderbolt to the Rebels: The United States Sharpshooters in the Civil War. By Darin Wipperman. Maps, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index.…

Smith of the 16th Wisconsin Company G. Smith enlisted on November 11, 1861, and was discharged on March 14, 1863, due to an unspecified disability.1…

cost and unity’s importance, making them essential for understanding American history.

began and the adjutant general of the Confederate Army when the crisis ended. This month, I will discuss the career of another officer who played a…

entertainment and quotability (reader response) are just three of them.

Relics: A Guide to Identification. By William Plummer. Author’s note, forward, acknowledgments, introduction, appendices, index, photographs, 434 pp…

Southern States had several daily newspapers, and many households held multiple subscriptions, including at least the morning and evening editions.…

Back in Washington in 1852, Cooper was named adjutant general of the U.S. Army when his predecessor died in office. He continued in this position…

That’s why Robert Patrick Bender, ed., Worthy of the Cause For Which They Fight: The Civil War Diary of Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds…

A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Jonathan W. White and William J. Griffing. Photos…

rural and agrarian. If food prices rose too high, farmers would plant and grow their crops or do without. However, this was not the case with tea, as…

Fort Moultrie, moved the garrison to Sumter in December 1860. Everybody knows that there was a failed attempt by President Buchanan to resupply and…

consider, I value John J. Hennessy’s Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas (1993, Simon & Schuster) as one of my very…