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University of Southern Mississippi Professor Susannah Ural talked about the Mississippi home front during the Civil War. This program was part of the annual Pamplin Historical Park Civil War…

Susannah Ural, author of Hood’s Texas Brigade, talked about success of this Confederate unit despite high casualties at the Battle of Antietam. She outlined the influences that shaped the br…

University of Southern Mississippi Professor Susannah Ural described the treatment of Confederate veterans after the Civil War and challenges preconceptions about the Mississippi state pensi…

Historian Susannah Ural talked about her book, Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy’s Most Celebrated Unit. She described the experiences of the men and women w…

Susannah Ural talked about her book Don’t Hurry Me Down To Hades: Soldiers and Families in America’s Civil War, in which she draws upon letters and diary entries to tell the story of the Civ…

History professor Susannah Ural talked about Confederate General John Bell Hood’s Texas Brigade in 1863. She tracks the unit’s progression, and uses examples from the soldiers' own words to …

From the Battle of Fredericksburg 150th Anniversary event, history professor Susannah Ural talks about the Irish Brigade’s role in the battle. Co-sponsored by the National Park Service, the …

Panelists discussed Mark Grimsley’s book, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865, which was the featured book of the 2012 Civil War Institute Summer…

University of Southern Mississippi professor Susannah Ural teaches a course on the history of the United States from its founding to 1877. In this lecture, Professor Ural focuses on the pres…

Historian Susannah Ural talked about the legacy of the Union’s loss at the October 1861 Battle of Ball’s Bluff near Leesburg, Virginia. Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker, the only sitting U.S. …

Panelists discussed Confederate officer Edward Porter Alexander’s memoir, Fighting for the Confederacy, which he wrote in the 1890s about his experiences and observations during the Civil Wa…