Book Review: I Dread the Thought of the Place
I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign by D. Scott Hartwig (2023)
Book Review by Jeffrey R. Biggs
Book Review: Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command
Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command by Kent Masterson Brown (2021)
Book Review by Jeffrey R. Biggs
Sir William Howard Russell reports on the War
The Times correspondent Sir William Howard Russell of London describes the scene of McDowell’s army preparing to advance, July 19, 1861.
By William Howard Russell (1861)
A.L. Long recalls a conversation with Robert E. Lee
Lee’s Military Secretary, A.L. Long, claims his chief anticipated that the battle would be fought near Gettysburg.
By A.L. Long (1886)