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Mississippi in the Civil War
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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… |
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Corinth 1862
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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… |
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James Z. George
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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… |
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Rethinking Shiloh
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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… |
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The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation
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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… |
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