Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Don't Tread on Me more than one hundred thousand

more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers

the 147th New York went into battle to the north of the Railroad Cut

Via the lost art of letter writing

noted scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation

July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War

Lincoln’s Assassination (Edward Steers, JR. - LL) Don't Tread on Me more than one hundred thousandFor 150 years, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has fascinated the American people. Relatively few academic historians, however, have devoted study to it, viewing the murder as a side note tied to neither the Civil War nor Reconstruction. Over time, the traditional story of the assassination has become littered with myths, from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booths escape to Oklahoma or India, where he died by suicide