Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America’s Civil War. By the turn of the next century, t
A resident historian’s reflections on the Civil War’s most famous battleThe Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generated more than their share of analysis and published works. In My G
A specialist in the US Civil War, Snell (history, Shepherd U., West Virginia) recounts how West Virginia became a state in June 1863 in the turmoil of war, the war experience of the people, and their
From First to Last is complete life story of one of the most controversial yet least well known generals on either side during the Civil War. The number one graduate of the West Point class of 1843, W
