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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Retreat with Honor

(Part 4 of 4).  In 1883,Clarence Clough Buel, the Assistant Editor of The Century Magazine, proposed a series of articles which would present differing points of view on the Civil War.  Buel’s plan included the eventual publication of the articles in book form.  In 1887 and 1888, the four volume work was first published. A […]

Ulman Brothers in the Civil War

5 Ulman Brothers – Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1850 By most accounts, Lazarus Ulman was born about 1793 in Germany.  One account says he was born in Russia and his native language was Yiddish.  He emigrated to the United States sometime before 1828 and married Lydia Abrahams, who was born about 1808 in Pennsylvania. At the time […]