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Battle of Gettysburg: Who Really Fired the First Shot? When Lieutenant Marcellus Jones touched off a shot in the early morning of July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg, he could not have realized that his bullet would create a controversy argued over for decades.   |
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Letters from Readers Opening the Ball... Battlefield Behavior... |
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Letters from Readers Andersonville vs. Camp Douglas... Mail From the Front... Lincoln's Gettysburg Addressees... |
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William A. Dobak |
Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction Known as buffalo soldiers, though they did not use that term themselves, the black servicemen who saw duty in the Wild West generally had the same burdens and privileges as their white counterparts. |
Civil War Times
January 2007 |
Letters From Readers Wrath Awaits the Invader... Connecticut Connection... |
America's Civil War
Donald Scott |
Camp William Penn's Black Soldiers in Blue Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American soldiers trained to fight for their freedom at Philadelphia's Camp William Penn. Three Medal of Honor recipients would pass through the camp's gates. |
Civil War Times
December 2004
Olav Thulesius |
USS Monitor: The Crew Took Great Pride in Serving on the Famous Ship The crew of Swedish Inventor John Ericsson's USS Monitor took great pride in serving on the renowned 'cheese box on a raft.' |
America's Civil War
March 2008 |
Letters From Readers - March 2008 Gettysburg a high water mark.... Ancestor's Antietam legacy... Fort Pulaski and Lee... Correcting the Union offensive... The boy hero of Tennessee... Sharpsburg battle losses... Looking for Italian connections... |
Parameters
Autumn 2006 |
Book Reviews The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. By George Packer... On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom... Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations. By Alan D. Romberg... etc. |
Military History
July 7, 2004
Thomas A. Desjardin |
Gettysburg: America's Flawed Valhalla Much of what Americans believe about Gettysburg is myth, but their flawed knowledge of the battle nevertheless serves to sanctify their national memory of the fight. |
| Civil War Times |
Death and Civil War America: Interview with Drew Gilpin Faust Faust's new book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War is a thoughtful study of the impact of the Civil War's massive death toll. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Charles Oliver |
Southern Nationalism Exploring the roots of the Civil War... |
Civil War Times
July 2007
Michael Dreese |
Fighting and Dying for the Colors at Gettysburg Beyond their practical value on Civil War battlefields, regimental flags and other banners embodied the pride, honor and bravery of the soldiers who willingly gave their lives to defend them. |
America's Civil War
Brent L. Vosburg |
Cavalry Clash at Hanover Southern beau sabreur J.E.B. Stuart hardly expected to run head-on into enemy cavalry on his second ride around the Union Army. But a trio of 'boy generals' would soon give the famed Confederate horseman all the action he could handle. |
American History
October 22, 2004
Jason Emerson |
Robert Todd Lincoln: Perpetual Non-Candidate Living in the shadow of his revered father, Robert Todd Lincoln served the Republican Party and his country with distinction. But while perennially courted by his party, he steadfastly refused a presidential or vice presidential nomination. |
Civil War Times
February 2006
Daniel Mark Epstein |
Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman: War's Kindred Spirits Kindred spirits Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman prepared themselves for another bloody year of war as 1863 dawned. |
Civil War Times
January 2008 |
Letters From Readers Don't Forget Camp Morton... Thanks for the Picacho Story... Honoring the Rebel Flag... etc. |
Civil War Times
May 2007 |
Letters From Readers These Honored Dead... Rewriting History With the 1st... Gallant Goat... The Lincoln-Davis Affair?... Correction... |
Real Travel Adventures
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Ron Kapon |
It Was A Revolutionary Civil War I recently experienced two historic years: 1777 and 1863 involving George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. |
Civil War Times
September 2006 |
Letters from Readers Heritage Rediscovered... Another Dixie Diarist... |
American History
February 2, 2005
Dinesh D'Souza |
Abraham Lincoln as Statesman The key to understanding Lincoln's Philosophy of Statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. |
Civil War Times
August 2007 |
Letters From Readers Not a Lincoln Man... More on Lee's Pennsylvania Motives... Accessible to All... Correction... |
America's Civil War
Robert Collins Suhr |
Little Phil Sheridan Wins His Spurs At an obscure railroad station in northern Mississippi, an equally obscure Union cavalry colonel faced a personal and professional moment of truth. His name was Phil Sheridan, and his coolness and dash clearly marked him for bigger things. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 23, 2005
Scott A. Sandage |
Losers and the American Dream Born Losers: A History of Failure in America looks at the stories of near-anonymous people who dreamed big and fell far, while at the same time exploring our shifting attitudes toward those Willy Lomans in our midst. |
