Animals mattered in the Civil War. Horses and mules powered the Union and Confederate armies, providing mobility for wagons, pulling artillery pieces, and servi
This book is a collection of anecdotal material about some of the animals that served their masters and mistresses faithfully during the Civil War. Although all
During the Civil War, humans impacted plants and animals on an unprecedented scale as soldiers on both sides waged the most environmentally destructive war ever
Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant
"A unique recounting of the Confederate use of landmines during the American Civil War. Hess uses multiple archival sources to tell a compelling narrative that