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    Out of the Shadows

    Jul 27, 2021 4 minutes
    Interview by Gordon Berg

    Edward G. Longacre is an award-winning historian with more than 30 books covering a variety of Civil War subjects. He is best known for his work on Union cavalry operations and biographies of Union and Confederate cavalry commanders, including Fitzhugh Lee, Wade Hampton, John Buford, and James H. Wilson. He is currently at work on the final volume of a trilogy on the life and legacy of George Armstrong Custer. In Unsung Hero of Gettysburg (Potomac Books, 2021) he gives David McMurtrie Gregg—an outstanding but underappreciated cavalry officer—a biography worthy of a soldier who served his country with unfailing dignity and unpretentiousness.

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