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Help sought for a timeworn memorial In 1879 the survivors of Battery B, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery—often called “Cooper’s Battery” after James H. Cooper, the battery’s captain—put up a small monument on Gettysburg’s Cemetery Hill to commemorate their role in silencing Confederate artillery on July 2. When Keith Foote and some friends visited the monument …
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Look Away Dixie LandThe song’s origins are murky, and its lyrics border on nonsensical. In its lifetime it has invigorated dance hall drunks, given zest to presidential campaigns and inspired military… Read MoreCWT Book Review: The Bloody ShirtThe Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox by Stephen Budiansky, Viking, 2008, 311 pages, $27.95. For all the arguments and controversies regarding the Civil War that have raged ove… Read MoreCWT Book Review: Lincoln LegendsLincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated With Our Greatest President by Edward Steers, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2007, 264 pages, $24.95. With a… Read More‘Only Take the Top Rail’Armies in blue and gray laid waste to thousands of miles of fencelines that snaked across the South, destruction that proved a very real factor in the Confederacy’s collapse. A dis… Read MoreCWT Letters from Readers- February 2008Thanks for Moses Ezekiel Article Kudos to author Marc Leepson for the excellent piece on Moses Jacob Ezekiel, “Sculpting the Cause” (November/December 2007). One comment: If you lo… Read More
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