Random Thoughts on History

Yankee Rebel: The Civil War Journal of Edmund Dewitt Patterson , edited by John G. Barrett  Faces of Civil War Nurses by Ronald S. Coddingt...

The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth , edited by Joseph M. Beilein and Matthew C. Hulbert The Batt...

Gettysburg's Southern Front: Opportunity and Failure at Richmond by Hampton Newsome Campaigning with Old Stonewall: Confederate Captain...

George Washington Whitman was a captain by the time of his capture. Siblings sometimes produce interesting relationships. In many cases, t...

On August 4, 1864, Capt. Henry F. Young, 7 th Wisconsin Infantry, wrote home to his wife sharing his sentiments about Black troops in the w...

Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson , edited by J. Gregroy Acken Black Cloud Rising:...

Far, far from home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, 3td South Carolina Volunteers , edited by Guy E. Everson and Edward H. Si...