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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant	4	24 Nov 2022 2:54 p.m. PST
Desertion in the Confederate Army:	5	20 Nov 2022 2:55 p.m. PST
Union Success in the Civil War and Lessons for	3	18 Nov 2022 3:12 p.m. PST
Six Miles from Charleston, Five Minutes to Hell: The	1	17 Nov 2022 8:26 p.m. PST
Book Review: The Left-Armed Corps	1	16 Nov 2022 8:23 p.m. PST
The Carnage was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain	3	16 Nov 2022 4:01 p.m. PST
James Longstreet and the American Civil War: The	5	30 Oct 2022 3:11 p.m. PST
Presentation: Saluting the Civil War – Minnesota’s Role	6	27 Oct 2022 10:44 a.m. PST
Best movies set during the Civil War	24	10 Oct 2022 11:00 a.m. PST
Book: Alan Guelzo’s Robert E Lee: a Life	7	27 Sep 2022 11:08 a.m. PST
"Longstreet at Gettysburg - A critical Reassessment"	19	26 Sep 2022 7:47 a.m. PST
Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern	3	23 Sep 2022 3:32 p.m. PST
films to teach the war	37	20 Sep 2022 11:37 a.m. PST
Cycloramas	6	15 Sep 2022 2:43 p.m. PST
Unhonored Service: The Life of Lee's Senior Cavalry	2	14 Aug 2022 3:47 p.m. PST
Tuesday with a Scholar	9	17 Jul 2022 5:29 p.m. PST
Leaving Gettysburg	1	11 Jul 2022 8:12 p.m. PST
159th Anniversary of Gettysburg...Live!	6	02 Jul 2022 4:34 p.m. PST
Staff Ride Handbook for the Overland Campaign, Virginia,	4	09 Jun 2022 1:58 p.m. PST
History of the black regiments?	3	06 Jun 2022 10:16 p.m. PST
Book Review: Decisions at Antietam: The Fourteen Critical	3	28 May 2022 2:12 p.m. PST
A Teacher's Guide to Civil War Movies	32	16 May 2022 10:47 a.m. PST
Early Struggles for Vicksburg: The Mississippi Central	5	12 May 2022 2:45 p.m. PST
Under the Shadow of Napoleon: French Influence on the	7	03 May 2022 10:24 p.m. PST
US–Dakota War of 1862	5	22 Mar 2022 11:31 a.m. PST
Civil War Symposium - Terrible Swift Sword - 1862	1	16 Mar 2022 3:56 p.m. PST
Book Review: How the Word is Passed	1	09 Mar 2022 2:25 p.m. PST
The Cinematic Lost Cause	20	09 Mar 2022 2:02 p.m. PST
1864 in numbers	8	08 Feb 2022 2:51 p.m. PST
Day Two of the Gettysburg Battle	1	19 Jan 2022 2:18 p.m. PST
Robert E Lee by Allen Guelzo	4	06 Jan 2022 6:00 p.m. PST
Unusual book resource for terrain	18	24 Dec 2021 3:35 a.m. PST
New Book: The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones	68	06 Dec 2021 10:27 a.m. PST
USCT Monuments	8	23 Nov 2021 10:48 a.m. PST
Look Again	4	20 Nov 2021 10:12 a.m. PST
Colvill, William (1830–1905)	2	14 Nov 2021 10:08 a.m. PST
Workshop for Young Historians	1	03 Nov 2021 11:20 a.m. PST
Presentation: Confederate Flags	2	28 Oct 2021 10:06 a.m. PST
The Great “What Ifs” of the American Civil War: Historians	10	24 Oct 2021 3:20 a.m. PST
Book Recommendations? ACW, AWI, Age of Sail	18	15 Oct 2021 3:44 p.m. PST
Manual for Engineer Troops	5	10 Oct 2021 6:24 p.m. PST
Spielberg is filming movie on Grant.	24	16 Aug 2021 4:24 p.m. PST
Does humor ruin the civil war?	14	10 Aug 2021 7:59 p.m. PST
Meet Sergeant Steele and his amazing collection of artifacts	2	22 Jul 2021 12:52 a.m. PST
Myths of the Civil War: The Fact, Fiction, and Science	2	19 Jul 2021 1:50 p.m. PST
Shelby Foote - The Civil War - and any orther suggestions	16	03 Jul 2021 2:33 a.m. PST
Civil War Pumpkin Bread Recipe	4	02 Jul 2021 5:07 a.m. PST
50 uniforms in 10 mins	8	21 Jun 2021 2:59 a.m. PST
Good Kids Civil War Books?	6	26 May 2021 3:30 p.m. PST
Battle of Nashville -THEN and NOW	7	24 May 2021 2:57 p.m. PST
Cerro Cora - Film about Paraguayan War NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD	6	21 May 2021 2:21 p.m. PST
The Three-Cornered War Review	1	14 May 2021 9:11 p.m. PST
Indian Territory books?	5	07 May 2021 7:20 a.m. PST
Civil War Supply and Strategy: Feeding Men and...	6	07 May 2021 6:31 a.m. PST
4 Days at Gettysburg: Old School Rules booklet	10	06 May 2021 10:40 a.m. PST
"Gettysburg Soldiers" - Initial Impressions	15	03 May 2021 9:37 a.m. PST
Gettysburg: The Story of the Battle with Maps, Free.	8	24 Apr 2021 12:29 p.m. PST
TSS is your fave!	2	23 Apr 2021 8:54 a.m. PST
Civil War–era sketches by David Stauffer	5	16 Apr 2021 3:12 p.m. PST
Worst Hollywood ACW Battle Scene	9	11 Mar 2021 7:02 a.m. PST
CNN's Lincoln	7	01 Mar 2021 8:59 a.m. PST
Inside the Neurotic Mind of Stonewall Jackson	3	12 Feb 2021 11:47 a.m. PST
The Fighting Irish	3	29 Jan 2021 12:21 p.m. PST
A Thousand May Fall: Life, Death, and Survival in the	4	29 Jan 2021 12:21 p.m. PST
A Civil War Soldier’s Letters To His Dearest	2	28 Jan 2021 8:48 a.m. PST
Civil War & Pop Culture: “Like I said, the war was rough	2	23 Jan 2021 9:32 p.m. PST
John Brown Mini Series	13	22 Jan 2021 4:12 p.m. PST
Third War Irregular Warfare on the Western Border 1862–1865	3	21 Jan 2021 11:19 a.m. PST
Best Lincoln Book? Team of Rivals!	5	19 Jan 2021 7:55 p.m. PST
REDOUBT No. 2 (Circa 1863)...	2	18 Jan 2021 8:42 p.m. PST
Some 80 years later, 'GWTW' cannot be ignored	5	14 Jan 2021 2:01 a.m. PST
On the Plains in ’65: The 6th West Virginia Volunteer	3	09 Jan 2021 11:09 a.m. PST
History of American Civil War Films	4	09 Dec 2020 11:20 a.m. PST
Bullets and Bandages: The Aid Stations and Field...	1	07 Dec 2020 12:25 p.m. PST
The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga	1	26 Nov 2020 12:03 p.m. PST
The Assault on Fort Blakeley: The Thunder and Lightning	3	26 Nov 2020 11:21 a.m. PST
Visual Antietam Vol. 3: Ezra Carman’s Antietam Through	1	24 Nov 2020 9:15 p.m. PST
The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign: An	3	24 Nov 2020 11:15 a.m. PST
Changing Sides: Union Prisoners of War Who Joined the	4	24 Nov 2020 11:09 a.m. PST
Connecticut in the American Revolution	4	24 Nov 2020 7:23 a.m. PST
Disorder on the Border: Civil Warfare in Cabell and Wayne	1	23 Nov 2020 8:05 p.m. PST
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee	3	19 Nov 2020 11:07 a.m. PST
How America’s Two Largest Surrenders in the Civil War	1	18 Nov 2020 8:26 p.m. PST
Make Way for Liberty: Wisconsin African Americans in	3	16 Nov 2020 11:12 a.m. PST
Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War	3	15 Nov 2020 2:33 p.m. PST
Songs of America	5	15 Nov 2020 11:36 a.m. PST
The Impulse of Victory: Ulysses S. Grant at Chattanooga	6	13 Nov 2020 7:40 p.m. PST
Courage Above All Things: General John Ellis Wool and	4	13 Nov 2020 11:01 a.m. PST
Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood	9	13 Nov 2020 8:50 a.m. PST
General Lee rode up to where I was standing.” ...	3	10 Nov 2020 11:27 a.m. PST
The Role of the Cavalry at Gettysburg - June 30, 1863...	3	31 Oct 2020 11:32 a.m. PST
37th Iowa - "The Greybeards"	3	16 Oct 2020 1:02 p.m. PST
The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman	1	12 Oct 2020 2:17 p.m. PST
Fighting for General Lee: Confederate General Rufus	3	09 Oct 2020 11:38 a.m. PST
The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign: An	3	07 Oct 2020 11:00 a.m. PST
Blue and the Gray for the win!	3	06 Oct 2020 11:10 a.m. PST
The Colorado War, 1864-1865	1	05 Oct 2020 7:54 p.m. PST
Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed	5	05 Oct 2020 11:11 a.m. PST
The American Civil War in Missouri 1861 - 1865	4	04 Oct 2020 2:12 p.m. PST
Civil War battles book with clear plastic overlay pages	3	23 Sep 2020 7:53 a.m. PST