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Lovejoy of Illinois
By John C. Fazio |
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In the
Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue
of Jane Johnson
By Nat Brandt with Yanna Kroyt Brandt |
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Blood, Tears, and
Glory
By Dr. James H. Bissland |
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Joshua Lawrence
Chamberlain: Scholar, Citizen, Soldier
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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Intrepid Mariners:
John Winslow of the USS Kearsarge & Raphael Semmes of the
CSS Alabama
By John C. Fazio |
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Francis
and Arabella - A Love Story
By John C.
Fazio |
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John
and Fanny - A Love Story
By John C.
Fazio |
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The
Barlow-Gordon Controversy: Rest in Peace
By John C.
Fazio |
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The Sword Was
Mightier Than the Pen
By John C.
Fazio |
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Family
Reminiscences of the Confederacy
By Bishop Beverly Tucker |
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Grierson's
Raid
By Dennis Keating |
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George Crook
By Dennis Keating |
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Three Ohio Civil War
Veterans Who Became President
By Dennis Keating |
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A Brief Sketch of the
Life and Death of Lt. Simeon W. Cummings
By Peter Holman |
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An Uncivil War: General
George G. Meade & The Pennsylvania Reserves In Northern
Virginia
October 9 to December 6,
1861
By Peter Holman |
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When Miles Met Davis
By Clint Johnson |
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Giuseppe
Garibaldi, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army?
By E. Chris Evans |
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The Rock of Chickamauga
By Matt Slattery |
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The Angry Abolitionist -
William Lloyd Garrison
By Dick Crews |
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John C. Breckinridge - He
Should Have Been Hanged
By Dick Crews |
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The Civil War's #1 Pain In
the Butt: The Life of William G. 'Parson' Brownlow
By Dick Crews |
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Was
Jefferson Davis the Reason the Confederacy Lost the War?
By Dick Crews
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Sherman’s Little Known
Failure: The 36th State
By Dick Crews |
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Officer Profiles: Short
Biographical Sketches of Civil War Officers
By Various |
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Ulysses
Grant: Dual Personality?
By Dan
Zeiser |
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Grant vs. Lee
By Dan
Zeiser |
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The Most Overrated General
By Dan
Zeiser |
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The
Most Effective General
By Dan
Zeiser
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The
Peter Principle and George B. McClellan
By Dan
Zeiser
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An Ancestor at Shiloh
By Dale
Thomas
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James
A. Garfield
By Dale
Thomas
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Andersonville’s “Clerk of the Dead”
By Dick Crews |
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The
Court-Martial of Henry Wirz
By Dale
Thomas
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Jesse James – The Last
Rebel of the Civil War?
By Mel
Maurer
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Balthasar Best and the American Dream
By Mel
Maurer
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Wounded Lion: U.S. Grant's Last Campaign
By Mel
Maurer
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Lincoln and
Grant: The Westerners Who Won the Civil War
By Edward W. Bonekemper, III |
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Lincoln’s
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
By Dennis Keating
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The Essential
Lincoln Bookshelf
By William
F.B. Vodrey & Mel
Maurer
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The
2012 Lincoln Forum
By Mel
Maurer
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The
2010 Lincoln Forum
By Mel
Maurer
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The
2009 Lincoln Forum
By Mel
Maurer
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The
2008 Lincoln Forum
By Mel
Maurer
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The
2007 Lincoln Forum
By Mel
Maurer
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Lincoln
At Gettysburg
By Mel
Maurer
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I
Escaped with John Wilkes Booth
By Mel
Maurer
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Abraham
Lincoln: There’s Nothing Trivial About Him
By Mel
Maurer
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Abraham
Lincoln and the Case of the Altered Almanac
By Mel
Maurer
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“The
Prince of Rails,” Robert Todd Lincoln
By Mel
Maurer
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The Fox and the Hedgehog;The Hampton Roads Conference
By Mel Maurer |
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The
Madness of Mary Lincoln
By Jason Emerson
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Booth In the Confederate
Secret Service
By John C.
Fazio
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Lincoln's
Assassination: Three Riddles
By John C.
Fazio
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Confederate
Complicity In the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
By John C.
Fazio
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Lincoln
and History
By John C.
Fazio
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The
Proclamation That Saved a Nation
By John C.
Fazio
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Mr. Lincoln at
200
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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James McPherson Speaks
on Lincoln
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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Lincoln
and the Black Hawk War
By Dale
Thomas
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Lincoln Visits Cleveland
By Dale Thomas |
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Lincoln
and Cleveland
By Dale
Thomas
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Where is Lincoln Memorial
University?
What Was One of Lincoln’s Biggest Tactical Errors of the Civil War?
What's the Connection Between The Two?
By Dick Crews |
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Making a
Covenant with Death: Slavery and the Constitutional
Convention
by Dr. Paul Finkelman |
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The Great Debate 2008
- Southern Victory of 1865: Was the
Confederacy a Viable State?
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Blood in the
Streets: The New York City Draft Riots
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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George
Washington: Hero of the Confederacy?
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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The War that Never Was:
Britain, the U.S. and the Trent Affair
By William
F.B. Vodrey |
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The
Constitution Caused the Civil War
By Dan
Zeiser
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Lincoln’s
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
By Dennis Keating
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The Irish In the Civil War
By Dennis Keating |
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The Search for Lost
Confederate Gold
By Hans Kuenzi
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Family
Reminiscences of the Confederacy
By Bishop Beverly Tucker |
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The Illusion of 'The Lost Cause'
By Matt Slattery |
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How the South Could Have Won
the War
By David Thomas |
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Conscripts In the
Civil War
By Dick Crews |
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The Angry Abolitionist -
William Lloyd Garrison
By Dick Crews |
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Andrew Johnson: A Tough Man
for Tough Times
By Dick Crews |
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Letters from
the Front
By John C.
Fazio |
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Did
the Institution of Slavery Cause the Civil War?
By John C.
Fazio |
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The
Proclamation That Saved a Nation
By John C.
Fazio
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The
Vigilantes of Montana
By John C.
Fazio
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Response to Carol Buchanan's Criticism of The Vigilantes of
Montana
By John C.
Fazio & Carol Buchanan
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Gold, Greed,
and a Vacuum of Law
By Carol Buchanan
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The Fox and the Hedgehog;The Hampton Roads Conference
By Mel Maurer |
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Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN
By Mel
Maurer
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The Great
Battle of Gettysburg
By Dr. Max R. Terman
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Andersonville's Whirlpool of
Death
By Dr. Max R. Terman
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Scenes from The
Fighting McCooks
By Barbara and Charles Whalen |
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Blood, Tears, and
GlorY: How Ohioans Won the Civil War
By Dr. James H. Bissland |
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The 8th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry
By Dennis Keating |
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Three Ohio Civil War
Veterans Who Became President
By Dennis Keating |
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George Crook
By Dennis Keating |
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Cleveland Fights the Civil
War
By Dick Crews |
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The 51st Ohio
Volunteer Infantry
By Dick Crews |
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Cleveland
Civil War Roundtable
History
By Dale
Thomas
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Johnson's Island
By Dale Thomas
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Lincoln Visits Cleveland
By Dale Thomas |
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Lincoln
and Cleveland
By Dale
Thomas
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Camp
Cleveland
By Dale
Thomas
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Silent Witnesses to the Civil War
By Dale
Thomas
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Well Done
By Mel
Maurer
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Balthasar Best and the American Dream
By Mel
Maurer
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The
Civil War Letters of Alfred Weedon, Private 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
(pdf)
By Jon
Thompson
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A
Review of 'Behind Bayonets' The Civil War in Northern
Ohio
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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A
Review of Civil War Monuments in Ohio By Harold A.
George
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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Lincoln and
Grant: The Westerners Who Won the Civil War
By Edward W. Bonekemper, III |
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Why Grant Won and Lee Lost
By Edward H. Bonekemper, III |
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Grierson's
Raid
By Dennis Keating |
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The Decisive
Battle of the Civil War: Another Nomination
By David A. Carrino
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The Battle of
Olustee
By Dr. Michael Dory
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’The
Rebels are Upon Us’ The 1864 Confederate Invasion of
Maryland, The Battle of Monocacy, and Jubal Early’s Move on
Washington, D.C.
By Marc Leepson |
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The Battles of
Nashville
By Mel
Maurer
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"We Shall Make the Fight!" General
John Bell Hood CSA And The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee,
November 30, 1864
By Mel
Maurer
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The Sword Was
Mightier Than the Pen
By John C.
Fazio |
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Fort Pillow and Ball’s
Bluff, A Response
By Greg Biggs
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Decisive Battles of
the Civil War? None
By Greg Biggs
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An Ancestor at Shiloh
By Dale
Thomas
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The Deadliest Enemy
By Dale Thomas |
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Governors Island
By Dale Thomas
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Bragg vs. Rosecrans at
Stones River, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
By Dale Thomas |
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Ulysses
Grant: Dual Personality?
By Dan
Zeiser |
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Grant vs. Lee
By Dan
Zeiser |
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Sherman’s Little Known
Failure: The 36th State
By Dick Crews |
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West Point In the Civil War
By Dick Crews |
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The 51st Ohio
Volunteer Infantry
By Dick Crews |
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The Zouaves
By Dick Crews |
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Breaks In the Storm
By Matt Slattery |
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Tactical Defeat
By Matt Slattery |
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How the South Could Have Won
the War
By David Thomas |
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Charleston
1861: The 'Other' Star-Spangled Banner
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Intrepid Mariners:
John Winslow of the USS Kearsarge & Raphael Semmes of the
CSS Alabama
By John C. Fazio |
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A Brief Sketch of the
Life and Death of Lt. Simeon W. Cummings
By Peter Holman |
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The Life and Death of H.L. Hunley
By Greg Pizzuto |
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Johnson's Island
By Dale Thomas
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The War that Never Was:
Britain, the U.S. and the Trent Affair
By William
F.B. Vodrey |
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Sailing
Aboard the Monitor
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Today's
Navy and the Civil War
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Mule-Drawn Wagon Trains
By Dick Crews |
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Civil War Roads
By Sid Sidlo |
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The Sharpshooter and His
Weapon
By Sid Sidlo |
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Technology in the Civil War:
COLD STEEL!
By Sid Sidlo |
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Well Done
By Mel
Maurer
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Cleveland's Civil War Roundtable Takes an Excursion into
Fiction
By Karen R. Long
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When
Legend Becomes Fact
By Paul Burkholder |
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So Long, Farewell...
By Paul Burkholder |
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Child of the 60s
By Paul Burkholder |
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A Review
of How Robert E Lee Lost The Civil War
By Stuart Kay |
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Assessing African American Attitudes Toward the Civil War
(pdf)
A National Park Service Report prepared
by Hermina Glass-Avery |
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George H.
Thomas Gets What’s Coming to Him
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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The Essential
Lincoln Bookshelf
By William
F.B. Vodrey & Mel Maurer
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Blue
and Gray on the Silver Screen
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Taking “The Gettysburg Test”
By John Hildebrandt
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A Review of 'Lost Triumph:
Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg - and Why It Failed' by Tom Carhart
By Dave Carrino
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The Best Book Ever
Written About the Civil War: 'The
Killer Angels' By Michael Shaara
By Jon
Thompson
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A
Review of 'Behind Bayonets: The Civil War in Northern
Ohio'
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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A
Review of 'Civil War Monuments in Ohio' By Harold A.
George
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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Family
Reminiscences of the Confederacy
By Bishop Beverly Tucker |
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A Review of 'Gods and
General's and 'Brass Pounders: The Young Telegraphers of the Civil War'
By Gary Norman |
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Mr. Lincoln at
200
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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James McPherson Speaks
on Lincoln
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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A Review of
'The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership In the Civil War'
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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A Review of 'Tarnished Eagles: The
Courts-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels'
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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A
Review of Jay Winik's 'April 1865'
By William F.B. Vodrey
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A Review of
How Few Remain - A Novel of the Second War Between the
States
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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A Review
of The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Sailing
Aboard the Monitor
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Churchill
and the Civil War
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Hysteria,
Democracy and Terrorism
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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The
Surratt Pardon: History that Never Was
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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A Report from
the Field... The 18th Annual Sarasota Civil War Symposium
By John Hildebrandt |
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Report:
Friends of the Hunley Oyster Roast, October 23, 2009
By John Harkness |
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I
Escaped with John Wilkes Booth
By Mel
Maurer
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Gettysburg Field Trip -
September 2008
By Paul Burkholder |
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Johnson's Island
By Dale Thomas
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Governors Island
By Dale Thomas
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Visiting
the New Lincoln Library & Museum
By William F.B. Vodrey
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A
Visit to the National Civil War Museum
By William F.B. Vodrey
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The
Changes at Gettysburg
By Dick Crews
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Where is Lincoln Memorial
University?
What Was One of Lincoln’s Biggest Tactical Errors of the Civil War?
What's the Connection Between The Two?
By Dick Crews |
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A
Review of Civil War Monuments in Ohio By Harold A.
George
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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The Search for Lost
Confederate Gold
By Hans Kuenzi
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The
(Secret) Life and Letters of General George Gordon Meade
By Major General George Gordon Meade
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Wade Park Manor
By Mel
Maurer
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Historically Deficient
By David A. Carrino
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History
Briefs 2012-2013
By David A. Carrino
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History
Briefs 2011-2012
By David A. Carrino
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History
Briefs 2010-2011
By Mel
Maurer
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History
Briefs 2009-2010
By Mel
Maurer
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History
Briefs 2008-2009 - Civil War Words In the Election Year of 1864
By Mel
Maurer
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History
Briefs 2007-2008
By Mel
Maurer
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On the Set of the Movie 'Gods and
Generals'
By David R. Thomas |
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Today's
Navy and the Civil War
By William F.B. Vodrey
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New
Civil War Database Goes Online
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Charleston 1861: The 'Other' Star-Spangled Banner
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Gettysburg Field Trip -
September 2008
By Paul Burkholder |
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President's
Messages, 2006 - 2007 Season
By John C.
Fazio
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A Collection of
Poems On the Battle of Franklin
(pdf)
By Mel
Maurer
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Jon
Thompson Poetry Prize Winners
By Various
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The
Lee Burneson Middle School 2007 Civil War Ball
By Mel
Maurer |
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Protecting
Yourself Online (For Free!)
By Paul
Burkholder |
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History
Under Siege -
The Annual Report of the Civil War Preservation Trust
2010
(pdf)
2009
(pdf)
2008 (pdf)
2007 (pdf) |
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Preservation
News
Various Sources |
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Decisive Battles of
the Civil War? None
By Greg Biggs
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Blood, Tears, and
Glory
By Dr. James H. Bissland |
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Lincoln and
Grant: The Westerners Who Won the Civil War
By Edward W. Bonekemper, III |
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Why Grant Won and Lee Lost
By Edward H. Bonekemper, III |
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In the
Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue
of Jane Johnson
By Nat Brandt with Yanna Kroyt Brandt |
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The
Madness of Mary Lincoln
By Jason Emerson
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The
Barlow-Gordon Controversy: Rest in Peace
By John C.
Fazio |
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Making a
Covenant with Death: Slavery and the Constitutional
Convention
By Dr. Paul Finkelman |
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When Miles Met Davis
By Clint Johnson |
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’The
Rebels are Upon Us’ The 1864 Confederate Invasion of
Maryland, The Battle of Monocacy, and Jubal Early’s Move on
Washington, D.C.
By Marc Leepson |
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The Great
Battle of Gettysburg
By Dr. Max R. Terman
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Andersonville's Whirlpool of
Death
By Dr. Max R. Terman
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George
Washington: Hero of the Confederacy?
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Scenes from The
Fighting McCooks
By Barbara and Charles Whalen |
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