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Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute (CWI) has released its inaugural volume of the Journal Of The Shenandoah Valley During the Civil War Era. The…

Contributed by Shelby R. Shrader One of the greatest challenges for Union or Confederate forces during the Civil War was moving massive armies and all…

Edward L. Ayers, “The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America” (New York: Norton, 2017). $35 hardcover, www.wwnorton.com.…

Thomas P. Nanzig, ed., “The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman” (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016). $24.95 softcover, www.uapress.ua.edu First released in 2007,…

Contributed by Shelby R. Shrader Invented by Christopher M. Spencer, the Spencer rifle was unlike any other firearm—save the Henry—used during the Civil War. With…

Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute (CWI) recently released “Touring the Battle of Cool Spring.” The eight-page guide, which includes nine stops within the university’s…

Pictured above: Front row, from left to right: Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation CEO Keven M. Walker; Shenandoah University President Tracy Fitzsimmons; Shenandoah University Vice President…

Brandon H. Beck, “Winchester’s Three Battles:  A Civil War Driving Tour Through Virginia’s Most War-Torn Town,” Winchester, VA: Angle Valley Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-9711950-6-6. $21.95 The…

On Saturday, July 15, CWI will offer a series of programs at Shenandoah University’s River Campus at Cool Spring Battlefield, commemorating the largest and costliest…

While the notion of our armed forces wearing some form of body armor to protect them from bullets is a common thought today, it was…