Rabu, 03 Mei 2017

CWT Book Review: A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley

A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley: The Civil War Letters of John H. Black, Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry Edited by David J. Coles and Stephen D. Engle; University of Tennessee Press Material on the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry, which labored in obscurity for much of the war, is very rare indeed. Recruited in Philadelphia, the 12th …

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