Why the Civil War West Mattered – and Still Does

In two recent columns for Civil War Times, historian Gary Gallagher has dismissed scholarly work on the Civil War West – a theater of the war that he defines quite broadly as extending from the Appalachians to the Pacific coast, and from North Carolina to Georgia. Gallagher has been most derisive of scholars working on …

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