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Civil War Book Review: Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee

July 28th, 2011 · No Comments

Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee by Joseph T. Glatthaar   Product Details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (June 2, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807834920 ISBN-13: 978-0807834923 Joseph T. Glatthaar gathered an astounding amount of data when […]

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Civil War History, September 2008

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Civil War History Published Quarterly by the Kent State University Press Volume 54, Number 3 (September 2008) Civil War History Web Site Everyman’s War: A Rich and Poor Man’s Fight in Lee’s Army…..229 by Joseph T. Glatthaar Joseph Glatthaar, author of General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (2008), takes a statistically valid sample of […]

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Categories: Civil War Magazines · Civil War Memory · Economic History · Social History

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June 2008 Book Notes

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Those that can’t write, Review! June 2008 James Durney *************************************************************** Book News Amazon.com has the long awaited MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT E RODES OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: A Biography by Darrell L Collins listed for July. The May Savas Beatie Newsletter has the book listed for June. Also scheduled for June is ONE CONTINUOUS […]

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Odds & Ends: May 6, 2008

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

An interview of Eric Wittenberg, J.D. Petruzzi, and Mike Nugent, authors of the upcoming title One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 (hat tip to Dimitri for this one) It looks like the Manassas National Battlefield Park has started its own landscape restoration […]

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Odds & Ends: May 3, 2008

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

It’s time for another edition of O&E for your browsing enjoyment: The Civil War bread riots in Richmond (hat tip to the latest History Carnival) at Axis of Evel Knievel Lee White at Army of Tennessee links to an excellent Grady McWhiney talk on Braxton Bragg An interesting interview of Joseph W. Glatthaar about his […]

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