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Mother Earth, Bloody Ground

June 28, 2014 Civil War Profiles 0

Mother Earth, Bloody Ground R. E. Thomas Paperback; 290 Pages Black Gold Media (2014) Mother Earth, Bloody Ground is part two in a trilogy of alternate history novels that depict Stonewall Jackson surviving his Chancellorsville […]

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The Civil War Generals

April 11, 2014 Civil War Profiles 0

The Civil War Generals: Comrades, Peers, Rivals – In Their Own Words Robert I. Girardi Hardcover; 304 pages Zenith Press (2013) The Civil War Generals is an entertaining collection of primary source commentaries on Union […]

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Lincoln’s Boys

March 16, 2014 Civil War Profiles 0

Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image Joshua Zeitz Hardcover; 400 pages Viking (2014) A concise, dual biography of John Nicolay and John Hay, Lincoln’s personal secretaries and closest aides […]

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The Forgotten Custer

March 9, 2014 Mathew W. Lively 2

Having recently read the new war-time biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer, I became interested in the story of his younger brother, Tom. Although Armstrong is the more famous of the two – albeit mainly […]

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Glorious War

February 23, 2014 Civil War Profiles 0

Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer Thom Hatch Hardcover; 384 pages St. Martin’s Press (2013)  Glorious War is a focused biography of George Armstrong Custer’s military service from his 1857 entrance […]

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Lincoln and Medicine

February 1, 2014 Civil War Profiles 1

Lincoln and Medicine Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein Hardcover; 152 pages Southern Illinois University Press (2012) A book from the Concise Lincoln Library series, Lincoln and Medicine is a brief analysis of the medical conditions possibly suffered […]