"When the Union Fell Apart Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon.
of the conflicting attitudes of white plantation women regarding slavery. 26. The
Secret Eye: The Journal ofElla Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848—1889, ed.
Virginia Ingraham Burr, with an introduction by Nell Irvin Painter (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 167-69. Thomas suspected ... Quoted
in Erskine Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plan ..."
"What made rifles both practical and devastating by the time of the Civil War was
the introduction in the 1850s of the minié ball (called the “minnie ball” by Civil
War soldiers), an elongated bullet with a soft, hollow base that expanded upon
firing to fit into the rifle's grooved barrel, thereby greatly increasing range and
accuracy. This new bullet solved problems of loading and reliability that hitherto
had limited rifles to a s ..."
"During the 1950s consensus historians, attempting to challenge the claims of an
earlier generation of Progressive historians, maintained that what distinguished
the history of the United States was the absence of feudalism, the strength of a
liberal tradition, the weakness of aristocracy, the limits of working-class
discontent, and the failure of socialism. Implicit in such an explanation was the
belief that conflict in America did ..."
"There are also some important recollections of Lincoln's early acquaintances in
Walter B. Stevens, A Reporter's Lincoln, ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln: Univ.
of Nebraska Press, 1998). The fullest study of Lincoln's years in Indiana is Louis
Warren, Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years (Indianapolis: Indiana State Historical
Society, 1959). One of the most important books on Lincoln to appear in recent
years is Douglas L. Wilson, Honor' ..."
The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other : The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North by Carol Reardon 192 Pages, Published 2012 by Univ Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-8257-3, ISBN: 0-8078-8257-7