Born in Mer Rouge, Louisiana. Attended Northeast Louisiana Univ, North Carolina State Univ and the University of Tennessee (Ph.D.) Professor of Geography and Military History, Henderson State University, Georgia Southern University, University of Louisiana at Monroe.  Named freshman honor society’s professor of the year at ULM and was four times named “My Favorite Professor” by the Baptist Student Association. Former Visiting Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point. Former President and CEO, TelSon Communications. Author of more than 40 books and dozens of articles on the Civil War and the German Armed Forces in World War II.
Former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and company commander.  Graduate, U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College and qualified through the rank of Major General, U.S. Army. Former advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf on the CBS Special "D-Day." Holder of the Jefferson Davis Gold Medal for Excellence in the Writing and Research of Southern History and much more.

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If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you’ve been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historian Samuel Mitcham argues in his provocative new book, It Wasn’t About Slavery, no political party advocated freeing the slaves in the presidential election of 1860. The Republican Party platform opposed the expansion of slavery to the western states, but it did not embrace abolition. The real cause of the war was a dispute over money and self-determination. Before the Civil War, the South financed most of the federal government—because the federal government was funded by tariffs, which were paid disproportionately by the agricultural South that imported manufactured goods.

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