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  • Civil War Book Review: Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

    Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America by James Marten Product Details Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (May 18, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807834769 ISBN-13: 978-0807834763 American mythology states that veterans of “good wars” reenter society with almost no problems.  These veterans ennobled […]

  • Review: Virginia at War, 1863

    Davis, William C. & Robertson, Jr., James I. (editors). Virginia at War, 1863 (2008). 232 pages, notes, bibliography. ISBN: 978-0-8131-2510-7 $35.00 (Hardcover). Virginia at War, 1863 is the third entry in a series of five essay books on Virginia in the Civil War.  The book, edited by well known Civil War historians William C. Davis […]