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Rites of Retaliation–Livestream with Lorien Foote
May 11, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
How the Civil War attempted to stay civilized
Join us on Wednesday, May 11 at 1:00 PM on Facebook for a livestream hosted by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. You can tune in by visiting facebook.com/CivilWarMed at the scheduled time.
Director of Education John Lustrea will talk with author Lorien Foote about her book Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War. The book sheds light on the attempts from both sides to conduct “civilized warfare” and how that definition changed throughout the Civil War.
Lorien Foote is Patricia & Bookman Peters Professor of History at Texas A&M University, and author of The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy.
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