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A panel of scholars discusses the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Their conversation is part of the annual summer conference hosted by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

William Marvel described the economic factors driving many poor northerners to enlist in the Union army. He is the author of Lincoln’s Mercenaries: Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers d…

William Marvel talked about Edwin Stanton, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War during most of the Civil War. Mr. Marvel argued that Stanton’s loyalties to people lasted only as long as they w…

William Marvel talked about his book, Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, published by Houghton Mifflin. The book takes a new look at the Civil War and faults both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis f…