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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Mississippi in the Civil War Mississippi in the Civil War Timothy B. Smith, Ph.D. In Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front, Timothy B. Smith examines Mississippi’s Civil War defeat by both outside and inside forces. From without, the Union army dismantled the state’s politi… OL15469658W
Corinth 1862 Corinth 1862 Timothy B. Smith, Ph.D. In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy—perhaps in all the South—than the tiny town of Corinth, Mississippi. Major General Henry W. Halleck, commander of U… OL16510311W
James Z. George James Z. George Timothy B. Smith, Ph.D. “When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the ‘Great Commoner’ of public life in his State,” wrote Mississippi’s premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, “he will unhesitatingly answer… OL16668689W
Rethinking Shiloh Rethinking Shiloh Timothy B. Smith, Ph.D. Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh “has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistently misunderstood, than any other engagement . . . dur… OL17753410W
The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation Timothy B. Smith, Ph.D. The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book, represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important? This decade was the perfect time for the es… OL17753413W