Civil War Emancipation will be on hiatus from May 31-June 9 while I’m off fulfilling an annual professional engagement that combined with my regular work will keep me exceedingly busy. The blog will resume on June 10, 2011. Good luck and best wishes.
Don Shaffer
About Donald R. Shaffer
Donald R. Shaffer is the author of _After the Glory: The Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans_ (Kansas, 2004), which won the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship in 2005. More recently he published (with Elizabeth Regosin), _Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files_ (2008). Dr. Shaffer teaches online exclusively (i.e., a virtual professor). He lives in Arizona and can be contacted at donald_shaffer@yahoo.com
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