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Leo Tolstoy – A Writer’s Mind
Widely considered by many readers, authors, and critics to be one of the world’s greatest writers, Leo Tolstoy remains a towering presence in the literary world. Among his vast literary output stand his two fictional masterpieces: War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Epic in its scope, War and Peace chronicles the French Emperor Napoleon’s disastrous…
Read MoreThe Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy – Book Review
The Politics of Command: Factions and Ideas in Confederate Strategy Thomas Lawrence Connelly and Archer Jones (LSU Press Paperback Edition 1998) The late academic historians Thomas L. Connelly and Archer Jones offer a detailed analysis of the competing factions within the Confederate high command that sought to influence Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s war policy during…
Read MoreGrenville M. Dodge – Union Army General and Spymaster
Among those Union Army generals who served and fought during the American Civil War, the name of Grenville Mellen Dodge is not well-known. In comparison to the wartime achievements of, among others, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Philip Sheridan, General Grenville Dodge’s accomplishments were of a more modest nature. Nevertheless, he made his…
Read MoreCanada and the American Civil War
In the small community of Long Sault, situated in the township of South Stormont along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Ontario, Canada, stands an obelisk that honors the more than 40,000 Canadians who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the American Civil War (1861 – 1865). Canada –…
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