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The War that Made America: Essays Inspired by the Scholarship of Gary W. Gallagher.Edited by Caroline E. Janney, Peter S. Carmichael, Aaron…

the Civil War erupted, the U.S. military updated its insignia. The War Department introduced metal insignia for U.S. accoutrements, while the…

like Fredericksburg, Atlanta, Charleston, and Columbia, and war-damaged regions like the Shenandoah Valley to argue its cataclysmic nature. Others…

mere hillocks in comparison with Stalin’s mountains, are nevertheless measures of a long, destructive war and of the vast, wholesale volumes of human…

out Shelby Foote’s trilogy.1

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taken very seriously. When a woman was being introduced to a new male acquaintance, would she offer her hand to be polite? It depends…on…

at Antietam; Mt. Zion Church at Richmond, Ky.; St. James Church at Brandy Station; New Hope Church and Ezra Church in the Atlanta Campaign; Ware…

the Confederacy’s total. The few battles fought in the state were not large-scale affairs and the books devoted to them would not occupy a great deal…

ou might as well whistle “Old Dan Tucker” to a hurricane (to use the vernacular of the old time) as to write about the Army of Northern Virginia…

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ground-peas or ground-nuts—were useful as an alternate source of protein, at least in emergencies. Since cooking facilities and other equipment were…

etc. Excitement chiefly over we marched about 30 rods to a strip in of clearing where we found a division of Hill’s corps in line of battle of…

hese words of Jefferson Davis were written in The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, published in 1881. The following year Col.

Pollard’s Southern History of the War, a 1,255-page tome whose heft alone discourages reading for many students.1

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“at [First] Manassas, over thirty-five thousand Union troops went into battle, armed primarily with aging smoothbores. Their final assault up Henry…

believe it was much warmer. Joseph Graves, Bedford (Virginia) Light Artillery, wrote that day, “It was very warm and dusty.” Thick smoke from…

at heart. It is a great history lesson kids can relate to and learn from. The best part is when the author mentions, “Just like people, no two gumbos…

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Hoosier Spies and Horse Marines: A History of the Third Indiana Cavalry, East Wing. By James A. Goecker. Illustrated, Bibliography, Notes…

alongside the quays; the stores are taken thence down the river, and shipped on board the transports now off Deptford and Woolwich… Each soldier…

the hospital complex at Parker’s Store. Artillerist Robert Stiles, “rode up to ambulance and looked in. They had taken off Longstreet’s hat, coat and…

Stay and Fight It Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—Culp’s Hill and the North End of the Battlefield. By Kristopher D. White and Chris…

Johnston: A Reappraisal” (January 1966), argues that Johnston had the potential to be a great general, but the circumstances of his several commands…

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sewn, the buttons and button holes were still done by hand. Take a seam ripper and pick out the buttonhole stitches and handwork them using the…

send a larger force across the Rappahannock. Hooker believed doing so “would leave nothing behind to interpose any serious obstacle to my rapid…

the enlisted man’s ticket, while his new friend traveled on the strength of his signed furlough. The pair fooled conductors all the way from the…

A curious calculation has passed through our mind, based on this information.

Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22-July 23, 1864. By Edwin C. Bearss, edited by David A. Powell. Maps, photographs…

“mess pork” or “clear mess pork.” However, if period accounts are to be trusted, some parts of the hog commonly discarded by fussier eaters ended up…

Opposing Ward’s Brigade was Col. Edmond Atkinson’s Georgia brigade. Fueled from their successful push of Meade’s troops, they stormed against Ward’s…

Outwitting Forrest: The Tupelo Campaign in Mississippi, June 22-July 23, 1864. By Edwin C. Bearss, edited by David A. Powell. Maps, photographs…

In their writing, historians have a way of being oblique. But they can also be quite direct, as when Prof. E. Merton Coulter once declared that when…

A Wilderness of Destruction: Confederate Guerrillas in East and South Florida, 1861–1865. By Zack C. Waters. Illustrated, bibliography, index, Mercer…

Of that newly acquired Federal contract work, Whitney allowed, “I expect to be more particular in my government work than in my State work as the…

left, the third man from me. He was in the ranks and I was the file closer. Well, I thought all the side of my head was gone, there was a piece of…

Bruce Miller’s excellent article (December issue) on the North- South Skirmish Association highlighted N-SSA’s recent national competition. Jack gave…

Richard Barksdale Harwell (1915–1988) was a distinguished librarian, bibliographer and historian.