New Looks at the Civil War in the West. In this new book from Savas Beatie’s “Emerging Civil War” series, Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris Mackowski have collected forty-seven short papers by thirty ...

Everyone writes about the Eastern Theater, and Gettysburg has become the mecca of Civil War folklore. If there is one battle from the Western Theater like that, it would be Shiloh,” he said.

After the war, he took photographs and stereographs—twinned pictures that create a three-dimensional image when viewed with special goggles—of the American West and Panama. He died of ...