Our interview with Susannah J. Ural, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and recent author of “Don’t Hurry Me Down to Hades: The Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived It,” now out with Osprey Publishing. In the conversation, Dr. Ural touches on how this is a different narrative of the Civil War. Furthermore, she lets us know who some of her favorite characters are from the study and what she hopes to be the future of Civil War Era scholarship.
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