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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal
Rod Andrew, professor of history at Clemson University, has won the 2008 Mary Lawton Hodges Prize in Southern Studies for his biography “Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer.”
Andrew received his award Nov. 12 at a dinner in his honor at the University of South Carolina. Following the award presentation, Andrew gave a public lecture [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal
When it was finally over, when the vote totals had made it official, he strolled home from a friend’s house through the streets of the little Illinois town. His first words to his wife weren’t “Woo-hoo!” or the 19th century equivalent, but something a bit more somber: “I am afraid I am elected.”
And thus Ulysses [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal
Print-on-demand book and books on CD may be a blessing for folks interested in Civil War history because it makes once out of print books available again. The text, graphics and photographs are stored on computer and when someone orders a book it can be printed or burned to disk with a few mouse clicks.
I [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal
The American Civil War has been exhaustively researched and written about. Popular and scholarly historians from Alan Nevins and Shelby Foote to James McPherson and Stephen Sears, not to mention scores of others, have all rendered their rich portraits of America’s pivotal tragedy.
Now comes The American Civil War: A Military History by British author John [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
One of the untold stories of the American Civil War is the incarceration of U.S. Colored Troops at Andersonville Prison in Georgia. U.S. Colored Troops were authorized by both the Second Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862 (Section 12) and the Militia Act of the same date (Sections 12, 13 and 15), which authorized the [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
Not many writers on Civil War topics can garner a dust-jacket endorsement from a former president of the United States, but Jimmy Carter calls Roger Pickenpaugh’s “Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union”“a vivid description of conditions and events rarely described.”
Even though eight volumes of the Official Records, War of the Rebellion [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
Sometime in the fall of 1862, a patrol made up of troopers from the 5th Iowa Cavalry rode out of Fort Donelson in Tennessee looking for guerrillas. The Yankees soon spotted and captured two armed men in woods near Dover.
Right away, the soldiers recognized George and John Hinson, a pair of locals once arrested for [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
“Devil’s Dream” (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In “Devil’s Dream,” Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan.
By breaking up the story’s chronological order and injecting it with a [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
James Rumley’s orderly world was changed forever when Union soldiers attacked New Bern in 1862 and occupied his hometown in nearby Beaufort for the following three years.
Rumley recorded his thoughts about Union occupation, secession, slave ownership and other topics in a diary that has been edited and annotated by Judkin Browning, an assistant professor of [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
John Hough Jr. lives on Martha’s Vineyard and the island plays an important role in his entertaining historical novel about one Vineyard family’s experiences during the Civil War. Hough’s focus is the Chandler family and its blissful domestic life, which are soon ripped apart by war. At story’s open, teenage brothers Luke and Thomas Chandler [...]
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