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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following institutions and individuals for the use of images from their collections:
Chicago Historical Society
Edwin Jackson, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
Eric F. Long
The Granger Collection, New York
Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Historic Photo Collection
Kansas State Historical Society/Kansas Museum of History
Library Company of Philadelphia
Library of Congress
Louisiana Digital Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Archives and Records Administration
National Park Service
New York Historical Society
New York Public Library
New York State Archives
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections Department
Virginia Commonwealth University Special Collections and Archives
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
Virginia Tech University Libraries
Western Reserve Historical Society
About the Scholar
Chandra Manning graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1993, University College Galway in 1995, and earned the Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 2002. Her dissertation won the C. Vann Woodward prize, awarded by the Southern Historical Association for best dissertation on any aspect of southern history. She served as a lecturer at Harvard University from 2002 to 2003, and as Assistant Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington from 2003 to 2005. Her work focuses on 19th century United States History, with particular interest in sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Currently, she is completing a manuscript on Civil War soldiers' views of the causes of the war, while working on a volume about Wisconsin in the Civil War and a book about Civil War soldiers' camp newspapers. She is also interested in the history of baseball.