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Thornsberry Bailey Brown

May 22, 2019 Civil War Profiles 0

Grave of Thornsberry Bailey Brown in the Grafton National Cemetery, Grafton, WV. Brown, a member of the “Grafton Guards,” was the first Union soldier to be killed by a Confederate soldier when he was shot […]

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Clara Barton’s Civil War

April 30, 2019 Civil War Profiles 0

Clara Barton’s Civil War: Between Bullet and Hospital  Donald C. Pfanz Hardcover; 228 pages Westholme Publishing (2018) In Clara Barton’s Civil War, author Donald Pfanz provides a thought-provokingly fair and accurate accounting of her nursing […]

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The War Outside My Window

July 8, 2018 Civil War Profiles 0

The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 Janet Elizabeth Croon, editor.  Hardcover; 480 pages Savas Beatie (2018)  The War Outside My Window is the edited diary of a […]

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Lincoln’s Lieutenants

January 12, 2018 Civil War Profiles 0

Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac Stephen Sears Hardcover; 896 pages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  (2017) Lincoln’s Lieutenants by Stephen Sears is a comprehensive leadership history of the Army of the Potomac […]

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American Ulysses

February 22, 2017 Civil War Profiles 0

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant Ronald C. White Hardcover; 826 pages Random House (2016)    American Ulysses is a new and engaging biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ronald C. White. Despite […]

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Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel

December 2, 2016 Civil War Profiles 0

Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel: An Unlikely Hero of the Civil War Sharon B. Smith Hardcover; 288 pages Lyons Press (2016)    In Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel, author Sharon B. Smith examines one of the most […]

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The Immortal Irishman

March 20, 2016 Civil War Profiles 0

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero  Timothy Egan Hardback; 384 pages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2016)  In the Immortal Irishman, author Timothy Egan writes a popular biography of Thomas Francis Meagher, […]

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Monument to Confederate Dead

October 10, 2015 Civil War Profiles 1

  Monument to the Confederate Dead in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Designed by Charles H. Dimmock and completed in 1869, the ninety-foot tall pyramid is constructed of granite blocks quarried from the James River.