Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) abraham lincoln did much to define the

did much to define the character of the war and affect its length

Clinton highlights some of the debates

Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers

and ultimately donated the most famous flag in American history

Wild Joy offers a view of the war from an officer's perspective and provides important insights into the day-to-day administration of a Civil War regiment

Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) abraham lincoln did much to define theby Timothy B. Smith In the century and a half since the Civil War, various entities, both private and public, have earnestly sought to safeguard the legacy of that seismic conflict through the preservation of its battlefields. In Altogether Fitting and Propera title taken from Lincolns Gettysburg AddressTimothy B. Smith provides the most comprehensive synthesis ever written of the long, often fraught history of those preservation efforts, which began