The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) cavalry Most visitors today are familiar

Most visitors today are familiar with the fighting on Little Round Top through Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1974 novel The Killer Angels

Beginning with the state of medicine at the outset of the war

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by Jay Hakes

The Boston Way: Radicals Against Slavery and the Civil War (KURLANSKY/CH) cavalry Most visitors today are familiarHas there ever been good violence or a good war? The American Civil War is likely considered to be so since there seemed to be no alternative. Or was there? Before the war, Bostonian abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison correctly predicted that fighting would not bring about real freedom and justice. If emancipation came about through violence, he believed, it would take at least a century for Black people to get their rights. As we now know, it has