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Saturday, July 2, 2022

Recent Acquisitions to My Library

The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight Over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction by William A. Blair

The Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox by Caroline E. Janney

Chancellorsville and the Germans: Nativism, Ethnicity, and Civil War Memory by Christian B. Keller

Dear Delia: The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry edited by Michael J. Larson and John David Smith

Decisions at Fredericksburg: The Fourteen Critical Decisions that Defined the Battle by Chris Mackowski

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America edited by James Marten and Caroline E. Janney

The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice by Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr.

 

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