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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
When Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton called Joseph Holt into his office on July 18, 1862, it was to offer him the powerful post of judge advocate general....
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MHQ Magazine
Like Appomattox, the events at the Bennitt farm were an American epitome....
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American History magazine
The worst stain on a chief executive's legacy is a hot temper....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary By Walter Stahr Simon & Schuster 2017, $35 Lincoln’s most controversial Cabinet member, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, is the subject of this justly deserved, excellent new biography. Walter...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Career U.S. Army soldier William Walton Morris is the epitome of the statement that “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
A Congressional committee kept a close eye on Union generals Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War ranks among the indispensable sources on the Union war effort. Published in eight volumes between 1863 and 1866 and...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
For many Southern civilians, Union occupation was sheer cruelty. That was how Bettie Blackmore recounted the terrifying night of February 11, 1863....
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American History magazine
Trump sees himself as a tribune of the people. But is he like his heroes?...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
On January 16, 1865, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Orders No. 15, which one admiring biographer lauded as “the single most revolutionary act in race relations in the Civil War.” The order promised...
