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Civil War Ordnance Bureaus

The Confederate and Union War Department Ordnance Bureaus were responsible for supplying their respective…

Civil War Statistics

Numeric analysis remains one of the sharpest tools within the workshop of social science for interpreting…

Secession

On December 20, 1860, the South Carolina convention unanimously adopted an ordinance of secession, the…

Regimental Histories

Regimental histories were—and still are—a popular subgenre of Civil War history. They catalog a regiment’s…

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