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Was he a ‘heroic black Confederate’ fighting for the cause? In 1994 the Sons of Confederate Veterans placed a Southern Cross of Honor on the Mississippi grave of Silas Chandler, a black man. By honoring Silas, the SCV helped transform a hazy story about an obscure slave into a full-blown legend. Films, prints, photos and …
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Military History Book Review: Neptune’s InfernoNeptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal by James D. Hornfischer, Bantam, New York, 2011, $30 The U.S. Marine landings on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942, marked the United Stat… Read MoreMilitary History Book Review: MansteinManstein: Hitler’s Greatest General by Mungo Melvin, Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2011, $37.50 This is the first American edition of Maj. Gen. Mungo Melvin’s comprehensive biograp… Read MoreWhat Lady Butler KnewThe Victorian-era artist never saw a battle, but her paintings show a deep knowledge of the soldiers’ plight. Among the most widely reproduced cautionary images during the U.S. inv… Read MoreWild Irish GeeseDriven from their homeland by centuries of English domination, Irish soldiers went to war under may flags. Ireland has been called the land of happy wars and sad love songs—the lan… Read More‘Colonial School’ WarfareCounterinsurgency doctrine was born in the European age of imperialism. COIN—a counterinsurgency doctrine whose principles were first delineated by the RAND Corporation in 1958 and… Read More
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