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William Hesseltine
Appleton, WI
Born: 1902
Died: 1963
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Biography:

Hesseltine served as a professor of history at the UW-Madison for over 30 years. Specializing in the Civil War, Hesseltine wrote more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles.

Hesseltine was originally from Virginia. Hesseltine studied at Ohio State University. He was, for a time, an active member of the Socialist Party, and opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy in the years before the United States joined World War II.


Works by William Hesseltine:
  • Civil War Prisons (1930)
  • Ulysses S. Grant: Politician (1935)
  • A History of the South : 1607-1936 (1936) 
  • Lincoln and the War Governors (1948) 
  • The Rise and Fall of Third Parties from Anti-Masonry to Wallace (1948) 
  • Confederate Leaders in the New South (1950) 
  • Pioneer's Mission: The Story of Lyman Copeland Draper (1954) 
  • The South in American History (1960)
  • Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction (1960)
  • The Blue and the Gray on the Nile (1961) with Hazel Catherine Wolf 
  • Third-Party Movements in the United States (1962)
  • The Tragic Conflict: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1962) 
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