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Through Battle Dispatches, Letters, and Other Records, Discovering the Wartime Service of America's Most Famous Nurse "I always tried to succor the wounded until medical aid and supplies could come up--I could run the risk, it made no difference to anyone if I were shot or taken prisoner." So recorded Clara Barton, the most famous woman to emerge from the American Civil War. In an age when few women worked in hospitals, much less at the front,...

Through Battle Dispatches, Letters, and Other Records, Discovering the Wartime Service of America's Most Famous Nurse "I always tried to succor the wounded until medical aid and supplies could come up--I could run the risk, it made no difference to anyone if I were shot or taken prisoner." So recorded Clara Barton, the most famous woman to emerge from the American Civil War. In an age when few women worked in hospitals, much less at the front,...

Excerpt from Historic Furnishings Report: Grant's Cabin, City Point Unit, Petersburg National Battlefield, VirginiaRefurnishing Grant's Cabin will accurately portray army headquarters as it appeared in the winter of and thereby provide visitors with a better understanding of the character and life of the Army's commander, Gen. Ulys ses S. Grant. Other forms of interpretation on the site, which will support the headquarters theme, include.About...

Excerpt from Historic Furnishings Report: Grant's Cabin, City Point Unit, Petersburg National Battlefield, VirginiaRefurnishing Grant's Cabin will accurately portray army headquarters as it appeared in the winter of and thereby provide visitors with a better understanding of the character and life of the Army's commander, Gen. Ulys ses S. Grant. Other forms of interpretation on the site, which will support the headquarters theme, include.About...

Many books discuss in great detail what happened during Civil War battles. This is one of the few that investigates what happened to the remains of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. It explores a battle's immediate and long-term aftermath by focusing on Fredericksburg National Cemetery, one of the largest cemeteries created by the US government after the Civil War.

Richard S. Ewell was one of only six lieutenant generals to serve in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and of those he was but one of two to have left behind a sizable body of correspondence. This new volume, drawing on recently available material and scrupulously annotated by Donald Pfanz, offers a large collection of the general's missives: 173 personal letters, 7 official letters, 4 battle narratives, and 2 memoranda of incidents that took p...

General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate, when Jackson died, Ewell took command of the Second Corps, leading it at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. <, p>, In this biography, Donald Pfanz presents the most detailed portrait yet of the man sometimes referred to as Stonewall Jackson's righ...