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This page contains a collection of
articles authored by Cleveland Civil War Roundtable members. Some are
original to the CCWRT web site, some come from The Charger,
and some from yet other sources.
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the articles are in html format (meaning you can read them with your browser),
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Joshua Lawrence
Chamberlain: Scholar, Citizen, Soldier
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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Intrepid Mariners:
John Winslow of the USS Kearsarge & Raphael Semmes of the
CSS Alabama
By John C. Fazio |
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Francis
and Arabella - A Love Story
By John C.
Fazio |
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John
and Fanny - A Love Story
By John C.
Fazio |
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The
Barlow-Gordon Controversy: Rest in Peace
By John C.
Fazio |
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The Sword Was
Mightier Than the Pen
By John C.
Fazio |
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Family
Reminiscences of the Confederacy
By Bishop Beverly Tucker |
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George Crook
By Dennis Keating |
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Three Ohio Civil War
Veterans Who Became President
By Dennis Keating |
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A Brief Sketch of the
Life and Death of Lt. Simeon W. Cummings
By Peter Holman |
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An Uncivil War: General
George G. Meade & The Pennsylvania Reserves In Northern
Virginia
October 9 to December 6,
1861
By Peter Holman |
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When Miles Met Davis
By Clint Johnson |
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Giuseppe
Garibaldi, General-in-Chief, U.S. Army?
By E. Chris Evans |
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The Rock of Chickamauga
By Matt Slattery |
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The Angry Abolitionist -
William Lloyd Garrison
By Dick Crews |
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John C. Breckinridge - He
Should Have Been Hanged
By Dick Crews |
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The Civil War's #1 Pain In
the Butt: The Life of William G. 'Parson' Brownlow
By Dick Crews |
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Was
Jefferson Davis the Reason the Confederacy Lost the War?
By Dick Crews
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Important Events In
the Life of Jefferson Davis
By Dick Crews
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Sherman’s Little Known
Failure: The 36th State
By Dick Crews |
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Officer Profiles: Short
Biographical Sketches of Civil War Officers
By Various |
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Why Grant Won and Lee Lost
By Edward H. Bonekemper, III |
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Grant vs. Lee
By Dan
Zeiser |
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The Most Overrated General
By Dan
Zeiser |
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The
Most Effective General
By Dan
Zeiser
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The
Peter Principle and George B. McClellan
By Dan
Zeiser
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An Ancestor at Shiloh
By Dale
Thomas
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James
A. Garfield
By Dale
Thomas
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The
Court-Martial of Henry Wirz
By Dale
Thomas
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Jesse James – The Last
Rebel of the Civil War?
By Mel
Maurer
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Balthasar Best and the American Dream
By Mel
Maurer
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Wounded Lion: U.S. Grant's Last Campaign
By Mel
Maurer
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The
2007 Lincoln Forum
By Mel
Maurer
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Lincoln
At Gettysburg
By Mel
Maurer
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I
Escaped with John Wilkes Booth
By Mel
Maurer
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Abraham
Lincoln: There’s Nothing Trivial About Him
By Mel
Maurer
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Abraham
Lincoln and the Case of the Altered Almanac
By Mel
Maurer
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“The
Prince of Rails,” Robert Todd Lincoln
By Mel
Maurer
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The Fox and the Hedgehog;The Hampton Roads Conference
By Mel Maurer |
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The
Madness of Mary Lincoln
By Jason Emerson
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Confederate
Complicity In the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
By John C.
Fazio
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Lincoln
and History
By John C.
Fazio
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The
Proclamation That Saved a Nation
By John C.
Fazio
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James McPherson Speaks
on Lincoln
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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Lincoln
and the Black Hawk War
By Dale
Thomas
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Lincoln Visits Cleveland
By Dale Thomas |
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Lincoln
and Cleveland
By Dale
Thomas
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The Great Debate 2008
- Southern Victory of 1865: Was the
Confederacy a Viable State?
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George
Washington: Hero of the Confederacy?
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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The War that Never Was:
Britain, the U.S. and the Trent Affair
By William
F.B. Vodrey |
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The
Constitution Caused the Civil War
By Dan
Zeiser
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The Search for Lost
Confederate Gold
By Hans Kuenzi
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Family
Reminiscences of the Confederacy
By Bishop Beverly Tucker |
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The Illusion of 'The Lost Cause'
By Matt Slattery |
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How the South Could Have Won
the War
By David Thomas |
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The Angry Abolitionist -
William Lloyd Garrison
By Dick Crews |
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Andrew Johnson: A Tough Man
for Tough Times
By Dick Crews |
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Did
the Institution of Slavery Cause the Civil War?
By John C.
Fazio |
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The
Proclamation That Saved a Nation
By John C.
Fazio
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The
Vigilantes of Montana
By John C.
Fazio
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The Fox and the Hedgehog;The Hampton Roads Conference
By Mel Maurer |
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Behind the Lines: My Life as a Yankee in Franklin, TN
By Mel
Maurer
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Three Ohio Civil War
Veterans Who Became President
By Dennis Keating |
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George Crook
By Dennis Keating |
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Cleveland Fights the Civil
War
By Dick Crews |
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The 51st Ohio
Volunteer Infantry
By Dick Crews |
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Cleveland
Civil War Roundtable
History
By Dale
Thomas
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Johnson's Island
By Dale Thomas
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Lincoln Visits Cleveland
By Dale Thomas |
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Lincoln
and Cleveland
By Dale
Thomas
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Camp
Cleveland
By Dale
Thomas
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Silent Witnesses to the Civil War
By Dale
Thomas
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Balthasar Best and the American Dream
By Mel
Maurer
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The
Civil War Letters of Alfred Weedon, Private 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
(pdf)
By Jon
Thompson
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A
Review of 'Behind Bayonets' The Civil War in Northern
Ohio
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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A
Review of Civil War Monuments in Ohio By Harold A.
George
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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The Sword Was
Mightier Than the Pen
By John C.
Fazio |
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Decisive Battles of
the Civil War? None
By Greg Biggs
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An Ancestor at Shiloh
By Dale
Thomas
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The Deadliest Enemy
By Dale Thomas |
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Governors Island
By Dale Thomas
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Bragg vs. Rosecrans at
Stones River, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
By Dale Thomas |
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Grant vs. Lee
By Dan
Zeiser |
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Sherman’s Little Known
Failure: The 36th State
By Dick Crews |
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West Point In the Civil War
By Dick Crews |
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The 51st Ohio
Volunteer Infantry
By Dick Crews |
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The Zouaves
By Dick Crews |
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Breaks In the Storm
By Matt Slattery |
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Tactical Defeat
By Matt Slattery |
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How the South Could Have Won
the War
By David Thomas |
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"We Shall Make the Fight!" General
John Bell Hood CSA And The Battle of Franklin, Tennessee,
November 30, 1864
By Mel
Maurer
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Charleston
1861: The 'Other' Star-Spangled Banner
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Intrepid Mariners:
John Winslow of the USS Kearsarge & Raphael Semmes of the
CSS Alabama
By John C. Fazio |
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A Brief Sketch of the
Life and Death of Lt. Simeon W. Cummings
By Peter Holman |
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The Life and Death of H.L. Hunley
By Greg Pizzuto |
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Johnson's Island
By Dale Thomas
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The War that Never Was:
Britain, the U.S. and the Trent Affair
By William
F.B. Vodrey |
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Sailing
Aboard the Monitor
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Today's
Navy and the Civil War
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Mule-Drawn Wagon Trains
By Dick Crews |
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Civil War Roads
By Sid Sidlo |
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The Sharpshooter and His
Weapon
By Sid Sidlo |
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Technology in the Civil War:
COLD STEEL!
By Sid Sidlo |
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A Review of 'Lost Triumph:
Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg - and Why It Failed' by Tom Carhart
By Dave Carrino
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The Best Book Ever
Written About the Civil War: 'The
Killer Angels' By Michael Shaara
By Jon
Thompson
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A
Review of 'Behind Bayonets: The Civil War in Northern
Ohio'
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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A
Review of 'Civil War Monuments in Ohio' By Harold A.
George
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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Family
Reminiscences of the Confederacy
By Bishop Beverly Tucker |
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A Review of 'Gods and
General's and 'Brass Pounders: The Young Telegraphers of the Civil War'
By Gary Norman |
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James McPherson Speaks
on Lincoln
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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A Review of
'The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership In the Civil War'
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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A Review of 'Tarnished Eagles: The
Courts-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels'
By William F.B. Vodrey |
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A
Review of Jay Winik's 'April 1865'
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Sailing
Aboard the Monitor
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Churchill
and the Civil War
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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Hysteria,
Democracy and Terrorism
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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The
Surratt Pardon: History that Never Was
By William
F.B. Vodrey
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I
Escaped with John Wilkes Booth
By Mel
Maurer
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Johnson's Island
By Dale Thomas
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Governors Island
By Dale Thomas
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Visiting
the New Lincoln Library & Museum
By William F.B. Vodrey
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A
Visit to the National Civil War Museum
By William F.B. Vodrey
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The
Changes at Gettysburg
By Dick Crews
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A
Review of Civil War Monuments in Ohio By Harold A.
George
By Marjorie R Wilson |
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The Search for Lost
Confederate Gold
By Hans Kuenzi
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The
Secret Life and Letters of General George Gordon Meade
By Major General George Gordon Meade
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Wade Park Manor
By Mel
Maurer
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History
Briefs - Civil War Words In the Election Year of 1864
By Mel
Maurer
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History
Briefs
By Mel
Maurer
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On the Set of the Movie 'Gods and
Generals'
By David R. Thomas |
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Today's
Navy and the Civil War
By William F.B. Vodrey
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New
Civil War Database Goes Online
By William F.B. Vodrey
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Charleston 1861: The 'Other' Star-Spangled Banner
By William F.B. Vodrey
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President's
Messages, 2006 - 2007 Season
By John C.
Fazio
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A Collection of
Poems On the Battle of Franklin
(pdf)
By Mel
Maurer
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Jon
Thompson Poetry Prize Winners
By Various
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The
Lee Burneson Middle School 2007 Civil War Ball
By Mel
Maurer |
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Protecting
Yourself Online (For Free!)
By Paul
Burkholder |
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History
Under Siege -
The Annual Report of the Civil War Preservation Trust
2008 (pdf)
2007 (pdf) |
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Preservation
News
Various Sources |
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