It’s almost perverse how little Civil War reveals about the ... through active war zones, and past hostile barricades erected by state militias or other heavily armed local forces.

In his famous pamphlet “The Civil War in France,” he declared the Commune ... At the time, he was on the barricades during the Commune’s last stand — aptly called “la semaine sanglante ...

In manning the barricades with his followers last January ... to discredit as traitors and would-be instigators of civil war all partisans of “French Algeria.” But a simpler and more probable ...