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MY FEATURE WRITING New York Times | "I Cheated": Harold Gordon said that he had no grand plan for trickery when he set out to create a phony Civil War memorial in the workshop at his home in Templeton, Mass. Read My NY Times story. Civil War Times magazine | He rescues history, one handed: When he can't sleep at night, William Griffing sometimes will slip out of bed, walk several steps to his second-floor home office, and plop his weary body into a brown, wooden chair in front of his Mac. He’s surrounded by historical artifacts and oddities in this ample-sized room in his house in Batavia, Ill., 35 miles west of Chicago. Then he works his magic. Read more . America's Civil War magazine | If You Died in the Civil War, Your Enemies Would Loot Your Corpse of Everything—Including Your Underwear: On a misty Kentucky morning, Confederate Brig. Gen. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer’s body lay on the muddy ground surrounded by gawking Union Army soldiers. “What in he...