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[[File:Shantytown_USAEngineeringvictory.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px]]==[[Shantytown, USAEngineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Lisa GoffThomas F. Army, Jr.]]==The Harvard University Press recently published Lisa Goff's new book ShantytownLogistics win wars. Logistics is the coordination of complex operations such as moving, USA: Forgotten Landscapes housing and supplying troops and their equipment. War is the ultimate test of any logistician. During the Working PoorCivil War, the Union troops fought almost the entire war in the South. There's a chance that one of your American ancestors lived in an American shantytownThomas F. While we may not realize it nowArmy, shantytowns were a common feature of 19th century AmericaJr. Goff's argues in his new book explores not only how shantytowns became a prominent feature of AmericaEngineering Victory: How Technology Won the Civil War published by Johns Hopkins University Press that the Union's towns and cities, but why middle class Americans eventually turned on them and their residentsengineering prowess during Civil War gave it an distinct advantage over the Confederacy. {{Read more|Shantytown, USAEngineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Lisa GoffThomas F. Army, Jr.}}
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[[File:Hodges_scoutShantytown_USA.jpg|thumbnail|left|175px]]===[[Hodges' ScoutShantytown, USA: Interview with Len TraversLisa Goff]]===Johns Hopkins The Harvard University Press has recently published Len TraverLisa Goff's new book Hodges' ScoutShantytown, USA: A Lost Patrol Forgotten Landscapes of the French and Indian WarWorking Poor. TraversThere' book examines s a group chance that one of colonial scouts who your American ancestors lived in an American shantytown. While we may not realize it now, shantytowns were ambushed on a patrol in upstate New York by French and Native American soldiers during the French and Indian Warcommon feature of 19th century America. Travers uses this massacre to explore the lives Goff's book explores not only how shantytowns became a prominent feature of the colonists who foughtAmerica's towns and cities, died but why middle class Americans eventually turned on them and even survived this massacretheir residents.{{Read more|Hodges' ScoutShantytown, USA: Interview with Len TraversLisa Goff}}
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