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Item Detectives and Spies: U.S. Army Espionage in the Old Northwest during the Civil War(2014-02) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item A Lesson for All Rebels at Home: The Holmes County, Ohio, Rebellion of 1863 Revisited(2019-09) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-The Holmes County, Ohio draft-enrollment-resistance episode during the Civil War is well known to historians, but has been poorly understood. Previous studies have characterized the violence as a minor eruption of ethnic localism. New research based on previously unseen archival records reveals a geographically widespread and organized uprising involving partisan Democrats that included many ethnicities. The United States Army and federal and state law-enforcement authorities worked diligently in the uprising's aftermath to deter similar outbreaks.Item The Persistent Nullifier: the Life of Civil War Conspirator Lambdin P. Milligan(2013-12) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item Rising Up Against the Civil War(2013-09-10) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item The Spymaster: General Henry B. Carrington(Indiana Historical Society Press, 2016-08) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item "These Scoundrels Stand in No Fear of the Civil Courts; They Do, of the Military:" The Decision to Use Military Commissions to Try the Indiana Conspirators in 1864(University Press of Kansas, 2020) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-The decision to employ military commissions to try conspirators in Indiana in 1864 was more complicated than historians have previously understood. Many persons contributed over a long period, but President Abraham Lincoln made the decision based on his calculations about his chances of being reelected. Fearing that he would lose the fall election, Lincoln took the expedient step to try conspirators by military commission.Item The War Comes Home to Indiana(2013-03-13) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-