Elizabeth Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt
whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope of a contented slave
Carmichael resists the idea that there was "a common soldier" but looks into their own words to find common threads in soldiers' experiences and ways of understanding what was happening around them
Russell Horres
Tuh’u: a red beet stew with leeks dating back to 1740 BC
A Sight Never to Be Forgotten: Eyewitness Accounts from Union Chaplains at Gettysburg (Nancy Jill Hale, DLM) gun Elizabeth Leonard offers the firstOut of the more than 250 Union regiments that fought at Gettysburg, more than 130 were accompanied by chaplains, and about 50 of those chaplains left records of their experiences. This book includes stories of those eyewitness accounts, taken from regimental histories, letters, newspaper articles, and memoirs, that provide a unique view of the Gettysburg campaign, the battle, the soldiers, and the chaplains' role.