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Theophilus Francis Rodenbough (1838–1912) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Trevilian Station (Virginia) in June 1864. After his retirement from the Army in 1870, Rodenbough wrote several books on military themes. He composed Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute very rapidly in the spring of 1885, as it appeared that Russia and the British Empire were headed for war in a dispute over the presence of Russian military forces in the region ...