Abstract
The following essay is a cautionary tale about doing research, verifying not only the bias but the factual content of sources, and using multiple means to solve historical research problems. The author presented a version of the essay at a December 2009 symposium in Madison, Wisconsin, sponsored by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and the University of Wisconsin (UW) History Department, to memorialize the life of Richard Zeitlin and to celebrate the return of a full-time professor of American military history to the UW faculty.
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Timothy K. Nenninger, “’Casualties’ at Leavenworth: A Research Problem,” The Journal of Military History 76, no. 2 (April 2012): 497–506.