Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) ho Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book

Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award

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Grant tried for months to capture the Confederate Mississippi River bastion

in-depth work thus provides the first full view of a key but the little-studied turning point in the fortunes of the Union army in the West

his tactics rooted in the belief that the purpose of the horse was to transport the trooper to the battlefield

Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) ho Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Bookby Timothy B. Smith In the century and a half since the Civil War, various entities, both private and public, have earnestly sought to safeguard the legacy of that seismic conflict through the preservation of its battlefields. In Altogether Fitting and Propera title taken from Lincolns Gettysburg AddressTimothy B. Smith provides the most comprehensive synthesis ever written of the long, often fraught history of those preservation efforts, which began