Peter Cozzens

Oct 28, 2024 | wsj.com | Peter Cozzens

On Nov. 4, 1908, on a lonely trail high up in the Andes mountains, two Americans robbed a mule train transporting a Bolivian mining-company payroll. Two days later, as the fleeing bandits paused at a boarding house in tiny San Vicente, they were recognized by the village’s mayor. A shootout ensued, leaving the Americans wounded. One partner shot the other in the forehead to end his misery before turning his revolver on himself.

Apr 28, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Peter Cozzens

Where those first two volumes chronicled Indian warfare in the present-day Midwest, Cozzens now moves his lens to the Deep South, where “horrific combat and colossal betrayals” augured the eradication of the Indian presence in Georgia and parts of Alabama during and after the Creek War.

Jan 30, 2024 | historynet.com | Jon Bock |Peter Cozzens

On August 30, 1813, a war party of 750 enraged American Indian warriors attacked a haphazard stockade known as Fort Mims in the southwestern corner of present-day Alabama, 50 miles from Mobile. After killing most of the 146 defending militiamen, the warriors turned on nearly twice that number of White, Black, and Métis (mixed indigenous and white) noncombatants, slaughtering scores of women and children with sickening ferocity.

Nov 17, 2023 | wsj.com | Peter Cozzens

But Longstreet earned the lasting opprobrium of former Confederates less for his supposed failures at Gettysburg than for his rapid acceptance of Reconstruction and his early postwar membership in the Republican Party. He supported the integrationist policies of his friend President Ulysses S. Grant, advocated racial reconciliation, and rejected the Lost Cause mythology that absolved a saintlike Lee of any responsibility for Southern defeat.

May 24, 2023 | emissourian.com | Paula Tredway |Peter Cozzens |Matthew Perry

“The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus” by Lucy WardFor Adult Non-fiction ReadersReview by Erica Mosley, Scenic Regional Library Branch Manager in OwensvilleIn 1768 the famously unconventional Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, took a calculated risk most people of that era considered absolutely insane: she infected herself with smallpox. On purpose. She had watched the virus kill 400,000 people every year, just in Europe alone.