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Standing at the Sunken Road, a key battlefield location from the Civil War, Ranger Pete explains why this area became one of the conflict’s most fiercely contested sites. He describes how the natural ...

In several previous columns, I rated Confederate Civil War commanders, and basically have found them to be a very average group. The military talent of Gen. Robert E. Lee was balanced by the fumbling ...

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

Strategy is the focus of most of the modern military historians. Their driving assumption is that strategy is the ‘dog’ and tactics is the ‘tail.’ In other words, strategy shapes the course and ...

Terrible excitement -- Plague and pride -- A talent for buffoonery -- Not recommended -- Neither effective nor subordinate -- His exuberant spirit -- The Gosport debacle -- Delaware farmer -- Baptisms ...