Witness to War by J. Mark Powell, Stackpole Books, 2026
Witness to War allows you to experience the American Civil War firsthand through the witnesses who were there. Union and Confederate, battlefront and home front, soldiers and civilians (men, women, and even a few children) – 432 witnesses in all
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1673 Robert Houghton to John Morris at Sir Robert Clayton's [English-Colonial Banking & Bishop Mark History]
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