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Publication of Note | June 2025

David B. Swinfen. “Ruggles’ Regiment: The 122nd New York Volunteers in the American Civil War.” University Press of New England, 1982.

After the Civil War, William Eugene Ruggles, a carpenter from Syracuse, New York, at the time of his enlistment in the 122nd New York Infantry…

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Artifact of the Quarter | March 2025

Bayonet Entrenching Tool

Several years ago, MCWI established a relationship with the Fort Collier Civil War Center to support educational and interpretive efforts at Fort Collier, among the…

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Publication Of Note | March 2025

James E. Taylor. “The James E. Taylor Sketchbook: With Sheridan Up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.” Morningside House, 1989.

*Throughout 2025, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite books related to Civil War art. Visual representations…

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Publication Of Note | December 2024

Emma Cassandra Riely Macon and Reuben Conway Macon. “Reminiscences of the Civil War.” Privately Printed, 1911.

Years after the Civil War’s end, Kate Conway Macon Paulson asked her mother, Emma Cassandra Riely Macon, to record her experiences during the Civil War…

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Publication Of Note | September 2024

Francis Buffum. “Sheridan’s Veterans.” Boston, MA: W.F. Brown & Company, 1886.

*Throughout 2024, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in…

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Publication Of Note | June 2024

George T. Stevens. “Three Years in the Sixth Corps.” Albany, NY: S.R. Gray Publisher, 1866.

*Throughout 2024 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in…

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Publication of Note | March 2024

William S. Tyler, ed. “Recollections of the Civil War: With Many Original Diary Entries and Letters Written from the Seat of War, and with Annotated References by Mason Whiting Tyler” New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912.

*Throughout 2024, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight some of the director’s favorite primary sources relevant to the Civil War in…

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Publication of Note | December 2023

Gary W. Gallagher, ed. “The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

*Throughout 2023, the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will feature some of the director’s favorite collections of essays relevant to the Civil War…

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Publication of Note | March 2023

Gary W. Gallagher, ed. “The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Throughout 2023 the “Publication of Note” portion of the Picket Post newsletter will include some of the director’s favorite collections of essays relevant to the…

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Publication of Note | December 2022

Mark Edwin Paul, ed. “A Company of Boys in Blue: The Civil War Through the Eyes of a Soldier” Williamsburg, WV: Mark Edwin Paul, 2011.

*Throughout 2022 the “Publication of Note” portion of the newsletter will highlight important collections of letters and primary documents relevant to the Civil War era…

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