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The Question Is Not What Is This Book Worth? But Rather What Is This Book’s Real Fair Market Value?
The Question Is Not What Is This Book Worth? But Rather What Is This Book’s Real Fair Market Value? Book Values – The Art Of Successful Pricing For The Second-Han…
THE ELECTION OF 1876 IN SOUTH CAROLINA – And You Thought 2016 Was a Strange Year
THE ELECTION OF 1876 IN SOUTH CAROLINA – And You Thought 2016 Was a Strange Year By Gould Hagler Two competing bodies of men occupied the chamber of the House of…
Southern Historical Society Papers
Northern effort to write a biased history of the war, the society maintained its focus on the original goal as established in New Orleans, “…the collection and pr…
Remembering A Desperate Defense Of Culp’s Hill
Remembering A Desperate Defense Of Culp’s Hill By Joe Bordonaro Colonel Joshua Chamberlain’s 20th Maine is rightly famous for its epic defense of Little Round Top…
Reenactor Groups Come Together
PERRYVILLE, Ky. – On the very ground where Americans fought Americans over their discontent for each other, a group of Federal Civil War reenactors put aside diff…
Reconstruction Era Electoral College Fraud
Reconstruction Era Electoral College Fraud By Philip Leigh About four o’clock on the morning following Tuesday’s Presidential election The New York Times received…
Provenance of Loaded Muskets Recovered From Gettysburg
Letters To The Editor Provenance of Loaded Muskets Recovered From Gettysburg TO THE EDITOR: I’m a long-time researcher of U.S. Army Ordnance Department records at…
Pennsylvania Meetings + Events Magazine Award
Pennsylvania Meetings + Events Magazine Award GETTYSBURG, PA.–Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center was voted the top venue in the state as…
Paging Through — January 2017
By Jack Melton By the time you receive this issue we will have moved our headquarters to Charleston, South Carolina. Our new mailing address is 520 Folly Road, Su…
N. K. Fairbank: The Lord of Lard
By Craig L. Barry N. K. Fairbank: The Lord of Lard “After being camped there a few days, a detail of fifteen men was called to go to Richmond, Louisiana, to watch…
Miles Greenwood’s Cincinnati War Effort
By Tim Prince Miles Greenwood’s Cincinnati War Effort Last month, while talking about the some of the alterations performed on Austrian Model 1842 Muskets importe…
March To The Sea Marker
March To The Sea Marker ATLANTA, GA.—The Sons Of Union Veterans and the Georgia Civil Service Commission, installed a new monument at the starting point, of the U…
Maker McElroy’s Rare ‘Lasso Knife’ Explained
Maker McElroy’s Rare ‘Lasso Knife’ Explained By Shannon Pritchard The knife illustrated here has an interesting history. It can be seen from this article, quoted…
Louisville, Kentucky’s Confederate Monument Sold Down River
Louisville, Kentucky’s Confederate Monument Sold Down River By Charles H. Bogart Louisville Kentucky’s Confederate Memorial Monument, located within the campus of…
Longstreet Society Seminar Held In Gettysburg
Longstreet Society Seminar Held In Gettysburg the group, welcomed them to the seminar and to Gettysburg. This evening proved to be simply awesome as Wayne Motts,…
Living Veteran’s Daughter
By Gould Hagler Pictured here is Iris Lee Gay Jordan, the daughter of Lewis Gay, who served as a private in the 4th Florida Infantry Regiment. Private Gay was cap…
How To Win A Prestigious Book Award!
Book Review Editor’s note: After our column in the November issue about distinguished book awards given by several Civil War Round Tables around the country, we d…
History Of Memorial Hall — 125th Anniversary
Memorial Hall before the front porch was added. By Joseph A. Ricci One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Memorial Hall opened its doors and invited the world to…
General Longstreet Museum Celebrates 10 Years
on the block to be sold. It was overgrown, deteriorating, and fast becoming an eyesore. Local Civil War historian Mike Beck discovered that a contractor had asked…
Franklin Symposium Studies Pivotal Battle
Franklin Symposium Studies Pivotal Battle By Gregory L. Wade FRANKLIN, TENN.—The Battle of Franklin Trust (BOFT) recently hosted a symposium called, “The Battle o…
Fleetwood Hill: The Return Of The Yankees And The Rebels
Fleetwood Hill: The Return Of The Yankees And The Rebels By Sandy Goss It’s a long, grassy hill that looks like any other grassy hill except that over 150 years a…
Confederate Memorial Hall Victim Of Fire Bombing
Confederate Memorial Hall Victim Of Fire Bombing By Joseph A. Ricci NEW ORLEANS, LA.—New Orleans hidden gem, Confederate Memorial Hall, was recently the victim of…
Collector Shoot, Reborn Whitworth, Cartridge Cases & Henrys
I recently heard from friend Bill Adams regarding his work with the Massachusetts Antique Arms Collectors’ annual outing. Bill has organized a “historic arms shoo…
Civil War Events 2017 — January 2017
Through 2016, Pennsylvania. Vice & Virtue “Tell Mother I’ve Been Good: Vice & Virtue in the Civil War” exhibit at National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg. Stories,…