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Friday Interview: Religion and the Civil War Home Front

RALEIGH — The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War has generated quite a bit of scholarship about a key event in the nation’s history. Dr. Sean Scott, visiting assistant professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, has written a book titled A Visitation of God. It examines the war from the perspective of religious people living in the Northern states. Scott discussed his research with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Friday Interview: N.C. and the Civil War

RALEIGH — For more than a year, historians and history buffs have been recognizing the 150th anniversary of various battles and other significant events in the Civil War. Much of that Civil War history involves North Carolina. N.C. History Project Director Troy Kickler discussed the topic with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

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General Grant Defended in Raleigh

RALEIGH – Edward Bonekemper has a passion for Civil War history. After he retired from a successful legal career, it led to his first publication, How Robert E. Lee Lost the Civil War. It chronicled tactical errors that led to the South being defeated by the North. A natural follow-up is his most recent book, A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant’s Overlooked Military Genius. The book — about which Bonekemper spoke at a recent JLF Headliner luncheon in Raleigh — takes a different approach to history, suggesting that Grant was a great military commander and not a butcher, as he has often been described.

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