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   We often talk about the Civil War being a conflict of brother versus brother or family versus family. Some stories are more famous, like ...

Lt. Gen. James Longstreet A lot of ink has been spilt over the decades on Gen. James Longstreet and the Gettysburg campaign. Believing that ...

   Several times in the past, I have written about prisons, concentrating on prison guards ( here ) and moving prisoners across the South ( ...

    Lenawee County, Michigan, might seem like a strange place for a Confederate soldier to be born. Cyrus Ingerson Scofield first saw the li...

   As the war ground to a close, orders went out for the arrest of various political figures, including both sitting governors and former go...

   Following the war, veterans organizations sprang up all over the nation. Memphis seemed slow to join the various groups. Prominent in the...

Confederate Monument, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis    Any great influx of men brought about numerous cases of disease, some of which led to dea...