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Samuel DeGolyer’s Michigan battery fought masterfully during the Vicksburg Campaign.

Through four counties and two states, Union and Confederates fought the day after the Battle of Gettysburg.

Regardless of what one thinks about the issues involved in the Civil War, restricting what someone can say on its grounds, is a clear violation of Free Speech.

Following an extended illness, Dr. Harry Butowsky, formerly with the National Park Service History Division, passed away May 6 at his home in Reston, Virginia. He was 78.

Edwin C. Bearss, historian emeritus of the National Park Service, once said, “You cannot describe a battlefield unless you walk it.” Bearss was inspired by a visit to the Shiloh

Pamplin Historical Park & The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier welcomes guest speaker David Lowe to the Petersburg Civil War Roundtable.

100 years ago

True West Magazine In 1965, historian Robert M. Utley was in his second year as the National Park Service’s Chief Historian in Washington, D.C. Two years later he would publish Frontiersmen in Blue; the United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (Macmillan) the follow-up to his first book, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation (Yale University, 1963).   I first met Robert M. Utley in May 1977. He came to Bloomington to receive a Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Indiana University. I was...