More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of time ...
What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate troops. Confronted by unsanitary living conditions and the ever-present risk of ...
Introduction : Civil War irregular warfare in theory and practice -- The Confederacy's self-inflicted wound : the guerilla war in Arkansas, 1862-1865 -- Fire, provosts, and Tories : the federal ...
The spring of 1865 in Washington had been unusually mild. Temperatures on April 14 climbed to 71 degrees, according to the reading by the US Naval Observatory that day. The capital’s lilacs, azaleas, ...
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993. Image on file. Erected AD 1879/To the Memory of the Soldiers of the town of Wallkill (On side of base near bottom:) WALLKILL'S TRIBUTE TO/HER BRAVE ...
Coddington’s 1968 Gettysburg: A Study in Command, initiated the study of command as a distinct genre for students of the Civil War, but while much has been written since on the subject, not a great ...
More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period of time ...
1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April ...