Life of the Colored Soldier CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
As an extension of our Life of A Soldier Series Soldier Studies is honored to present a series of articles dealing with Colored Soldiers and their experiences during the Civil War. We look for to excellent scholarship written by some of the leading historians and authors on the American Civil War. Past contributors include:Chandra M. Manning, Michael Barton, Lance J. Herdegen, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Tom Rowland and others. For more information…
Read more...The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat
The American Civil War was the last conflict where both sides predominately used single-shot muzzle loading rifles, yet the technology of the rifle was such improved that historians have largely assumed that the rifles used in the war revolutionized the nature of the conflict. However, as historian Earl J. Hess (and a few others such as Paddy Griffith and Brent Nosworthy) has discovered, though the rifle used during the American…
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