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Author Archives: Gary W. Gallagher

Gary W. Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He has written or edited more than 45 books, most recently The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis (LSU Press, 2020).

"The Battle-Cry of Freedom" sheet music
Posted inStories

In Patriotic Melodies in the Civil War North, “Freedom” Wasn’t Necessarily a Cry for African-American Emancipation

by Gary W. Gallagher2/15/20242/9/2024

Songwriters such as George F. Root usually tailored their lyrics to themes of a still-united nation, with guaranteed liberty for all common folk.

Patriotic envelopes with pro-Union messages
Posted inStories

Civil War–Era Envelopes Bore Patriotic Messages—On the Outside

by Gary W. Gallagher12/7/20234/29/2024
Union troops foraging
Posted inFeature

John Pope Brought a Harder Edge to the Eastern Theater By Taking the War to the Civilian Population 

by Gary W. Gallagher9/7/20238/4/2023
John Nicolay and John Hay with President Lincoln
Posted inStories

Why Did Lincoln’s Right-Hand Men Call Him the ‘Tycoon’?

by Gary W. Gallagher8/17/20238/17/2023
Sculpture of U.S. Grant, Edwin Stanton, and Abraham Lincoln
Posted inStories

This Union Sculptor Exemplifies the Mid-19th-Century Home Decor Revolution

by Gary W. Gallagher6/8/20235/24/2023
Parisians reading newspapers
Posted inStories

The American Civil War Through the Eyes of the French

by Gary W. Gallagher2/16/20232/1/2023
Winfield Scott in Mexican War
Posted inStories

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
Woman at writing table
Posted inStories

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
Posted inFeature

Are We on the Eve of Another Civil War?

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

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

by Gary W. Gallagher2/9/2022

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