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CONFEDERATE GENERAL WILLIAM “EXTRA BILLY” SMITH: From Virginia’s Statehouse to Gettysburg Scapegoat by Scott L. Mingus Sr. Product Details Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (April 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1611211298 ISBN-13: 978-1611211290   A “Grand old hero” The title of this review comes from a eulogy given at a reunion of Smith’s regiment after […]

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Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.: Remembering the Rebellion and the Gettysburg Campaign Scott L. Mingus Sr. and James McClure Product Details Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Colecraft Industries; 1st edition (April 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0983364001 ISBN-13: 978-0983364009 In 1863, York County is not the epicenter of the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.  That […]

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Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863 by Scott L. Mingus Sr. Product Details Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Savas Beatie (March 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1611210720 ISBN-13: 978-1611210729 This review is for the Savas Beatie edition of this book. Histories of the Gettysburg Campaign dismiss The Pennsylvanian response with no more than a page. […]

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Human Interest Stories of the Civil War by Scott L. Mingus Jr. & Dr. Thomas M. Mingus Product Details Paperback: 150 pages Publisher: Ten Roads Publishing, LLC. (December 1, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0982527551 ISBN-13: 978-0982527559 Connecting to the Civil War 150 years is a long time for a family.  Any family member in the […]

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Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Gordon Expedition, June 1863 by Scott L. Mingus Sr. Product Details Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: Ironclad Publishing; 1ST edition (February 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0967377080 ISBN-13: 978-0967377087 Histories of the Gettysburg Campaign dismiss The Pennsylvanian response with no more than a page. The hapless state militia breaks at the first rumor […]

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The “In the Review Queue” series provides TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog readers with a brief look at books Brett Schulte is planning to review here on the blog.  These will be very similar to Drew Wagenhoffer’s “Booknotes” series at Civil War Books and Authors. The latest offering from Ironclad Publishing in “The Discovering […]

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Fellow blogger Scott Mingus has been writing a series of books on “Human Interest Stories” of various Civil War campaigns. Recently, I looked at Human Interest Stories from Antietam and promised to provide a few more stories from the book. This is the last of four entries I hope to devote to the subject. I’ll […]

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