Gary W. Gallagher, Author at HistoryNet

Winfield Scott in Mexican War

He Was One of the Greatest Soldiers in U.S. History. So Why Doesn’t Winfield Scott Get Any Respect?

by Gary W. Gallagher11/17/202211/17/2022

It’s high time that “Old Fuss and Feathers” gets some historic love.

Woman at writing table

A View From the North: Union Women’s Wartime Memoirs

by Gary W. Gallagher8/31/20228/31/2022

Brooks attacks Sumner in the Senate chamber

Are We on the Eve of Another Civil War?

by Gary W. Gallagher5/11/20225/10/2022

Love Civil War Research? Thank These Union Veterans and Their Books

by Gary W. Gallagher2/9/2022

The Seven Days Campaign — A Turning Point More Important than Antietam?

by Gary W. Gallagher12/1/202111/22/2021

Should Pope be a Punchline?

by Gary W. Gallagher10/6/20219/29/2021

Ken Burns’s ‘Civil War’ PBS Series Is 30 — Does It Still Measure Up?

by Gary W. Gallagher8/27/20216/17/2022

‘Old Brains’ and ‘Granny Lee’: Civil War Soldiers Often Gave Their Generals Pointed Nicknames

by Gary W. Gallagher3/31/20213/31/2021

Active Participants: African Americans and the Reconstruction of Democracy in America

by Gary W. Gallagher2/3/20212/23/2021

Where was ‘Little Phil’?

by Gary W. Gallagher9/29/20209/9/2020