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The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, June-October 1861 (Hardcover) by Bradley M. Gottfried Product Details Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (June 10, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 193271460X ISBN-13: 978-1932714609 In this hobby, maps are essential!  You need maps as […]

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Sometimes books just go together well, doing in tandem what each individually is incapable of alone. This definitely applies to the three books I’ll be discussing today. Bradley Gottfried’s books The Maps of Gettysburg and Brigades of Gettysburg obviously can be used together. Throw in Larry Tagg’s The Generals of Gettysburg and you have a […]

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I received Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory in the mail on Tuesday from Fordham University Press.  As a German-American, this particular book has special meaning for me. Christian B. Keller ties the scapegoating of the predominantly German Union XI Corps after Chancellorsville to a slowed process of assimilation by German-Americans […]

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Air Date: 100507 Subject: Civil War Top Ten Lists Books:  The Maps of Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 – July 13, 1863 & Roads to Gettysburg: Lee’s Invasion of the North, 1863 & Brigades of Gettysburg: The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg Guest: Bradley M. Gottfried Summary: Author and President […]

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