How Did Gettysburg Smell? How Did Vicksburg Taste? A Sensory History of the Civil War.

Cornelia Hancock, a resident of Hancock’s Bridge, New Jersey, and 23 years old in 1863 when the Battle of Gettysburg ripped open the Pennsylvania count ...
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