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Reliving the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, and discovering an Illinois connection

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the ...

Civil War scholar and retired Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt dies at 86

Boritt was born in Budapest in 1940 and survived World War II, although relatives were killed in the Auschwitz Nazi death ...
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Obituary: Gabor Boritt, Immigrant, Refugee-Turned-Renowned Scholar of Lincoln and American Civil War History, Dies at 86

Gabor S. Boritt, renowned author, scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, founder of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, and ...