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      • Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade southerners—a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war, even at the cost of the truth.In this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama...
  1. Jan 5, 2024 · The title of Howell Raines’ new Civil War book on Alabama troops who fought for the Union suggests it tells two stories. In fact it tells at least four, and while they don’t all pack the same...

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  3. Dec 5, 2023 · In this important new contribution to our understanding of the Civil War and its legacy, Raines tells the thrilling tale of the formation of the First Alabama while exposing the tangled web of how its wartime accomplishments were silenced, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general to a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy ...

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  4. Apr 9, 2024 · Howell Raines calls it the most amazingly counterintuitive fact in all of Civil War history: “White volunteers from the Alabama hills helped Sherman burn Atlanta.”

  5. Dec 5, 2023 · But as veteran journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from Northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground, but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers—including at least one member of Raines’s own family.

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  6. Feb 11, 2024 · The former New York Times editor’s remarkable book on Alabamians fighting for the Union in the civil war, and his own family history. Howard Raines’ new book. The subtitle of Silent Cavalry is How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta – And Then Got Written out of History.

  7. Dec 5, 2023 · Howell Raines. Crown, Dec 5, 2023 - History - 576 pages. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the...

  8. Dec 7, 2023 · Raines noted how Thomas McAdory Owen, the founder and first director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, sought to uphold the “Lost Cause” narrative of the Confederacy, which included, among other things, the minimization of slavery in the cause of the Civil War.

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