The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Shaara Drawing on rarely-seen documents and

Drawing on rarely-seen documents and family histories

November 2

Marszalek traces the sixteenth president’s evolution from a nonmilitary politician into the commander in chief who won the Civil War

a 12-year-old drummer boy from West Chester

social-climbing spouses and power-hungry politicians―as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart

The Bonds of War: A Story of Immigrants and Esprit de Corps in Company C, 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Diana L. Dretske - UA) Shaara Drawing on rarely-seen documents andby Diana L. Dretske When curator Diana L. Dretske discovered that the five long gone Union soldiers in a treasured photograph in the Bess Bower Dunn Museum were not fully identified, it compelled her into a project of recovery and reinterpretation. Utilizing an impressive array of local and national archives, as well as private papers, the authors microhistorical approach records events that often go unnoticed, such as a farmer enlisting in the middle