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Author Candice Shy Hooper talked about Absalom Hanks Markland, also known as “Grant’s postmaster general,” a U.S. Post Office Department special agent who ensured that military mail was deli…

Candice Hooper talked about her book Lincoln’s Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the civil War for Better and for Worse, in which she profiles the wives of Lincoln’s generals, Ellen…

A group of historians discussed the different ways women experienced the Civil War, depending on class, race and geography. They examined the relationship between Union generals and their wi…

Candice Shy Hooper talked about her book Lincoln’s Generals' Wives: Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War for Better and for Worse. The women profiled are Jessie Frémont, Nelly McClellan, …