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Stephen Crane
“Chancellorsville: Lee’s Greatest Battle,” a History by General Edward J. Stackpole
By Jon DiamondHistorians began writing about the Civil War even before it had become history. Battlefield accounts by traveling correspondents were a staple of Northern and Southern newspapers during the war, and a flood of memoirs, letters, official records, and unit histories followed in the decades after the war. Read more