In today's Muster, associate editor Megan Bever interviews Lesley Gordon about her recent book, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Gordon is the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama and the past president of the Society ...
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Louisa was fifteen when the revolution began, and her enthusiasm was undimmed when she wrote her memoirs sixty years later. She recalled the spectacle: houses illuminated with candles, bells ringing, tar barrels burning, flags waving. Most of all, she remembered the people. “I can never forget how those men used ...
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