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Published: September 23, 1999 at 1:01 am
Letters - SubmitCivil War TimesWho Stole From Whom?
The fine article of Morton Bryer and Irwin Schorr on the Southern Illustrated News (March 1999) cites its complaint that Punch, the British humor magazine, stole from it. The groan …
Published: September 23, 1999 at 1:01 am
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RIGHT, BUT A LITTLE WRONG
I had the great fortune to have been born and raised in the Gettysburg area and recall many instances of looking out over the revered battlefield, experiencing many of …
Published: September 23, 1998 at 1:01 am
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Sherman the Defendant
What would have happened to Sherman, had he lived in the 20th century, and…found himself on the losing side?" asked the late Otto Eisenschiml in his January 1964 article in Civil …
Published: September 23, 1998 at 1:01 am
Letters - SubmitCivil War TimesFrom Fort To Park
About 20 years ago I was beginning work on a book on the Battle of Franklin and a biography of John M. Schofield. In 1975, I spent about three days …
Published: September 23, 1998 at 1:01 am
Letters - SubmitCivil War TimesFact Or Fiction?
Readers responded in force to our first-ever use of historical fiction: "Lee in the Wilderness," an excerpt from Jeff Shaara's The Last Full Measure that appeared in our June 1998 issue. …
Published: September 23, 1998 at 1:01 am
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A Little Reverence, Please
Did you ever get blamed for something you didn't do? How the accusation stung! "(Your name here), you broke my (name of object)!" "I did not!" you probably yelled. "(Sibling's …
Published: September 23, 1998 at 1:01 am
Letters - SubmitCivil War TimesRewriting History
I read with some misgiving your announcement "Proposed Legislation Could Clear Dr. Mudd" ("News," December 1997). President Jimmy Carter did not issue a proclamation absolving Mudd of his conviction as a co-conspirator …
Published: September 23, 1998 at 1:01 am
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STORY TIME
"Tell me a story, Dad." It was with those words that many of us discovered how interesting the past could be. That simple, childlike request became a key that unlocked the door …
Published: September 23, 1998 at 1:01 am
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THE PUDDINGSTONE
Sometime in the spring of 1886, workers pried an 18-ton boulder out of the ground and sent it south from Roxbury, Massachusetts. From time immemorial, children had delighted in this massive stone …
Published: September 23, 1997 at 1:01 am
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HULLABALOO!
We feel very deeply that interest in the Civil War is not a sometime thing drummed up by the Centennial hullabaloo," wrote Bob Fowler, in the "Editorially Speaking" column of the April 1962 …
Published: September 23, 1997 at 1:01 am
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CORSETS AND M-16s
Sometime or another, every one of us daydreams about traveling in time. There are people who write out their time-travel fantasies in the form of novels or movie scripts, with characters …
Published: September 23, 1997 at 1:01 am
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SEEING IS UNDERSTANDING
One cool, sunny day last September, I leaned against the stone wall that runs along the sunken road on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and looked out over the ground that …
Published: September 23, 1997 at 1:01 am
Letters - SubmitCivil War TimesMissing In ActionI read with interest the item regarding the African-American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C. ("News," October 1996). I believe there is another group of soldiers who have gone without special …
Published: September 23, 1997 at 1:01 am
Letters - SubmitCivil War TimesBrothers In Arms
"The Midnight Cracker Line Attack" ("My War," June 1997) was very interesting, particularly the picture of the wooden coat of arms that Major Cate commissioned an artist to create. I have …
Published: September 23, 1997 at 1:01 am
Letters - SubmitCivil War TimesGrant's Illinois Home
I read with interest the story about Grant's Tomb ("News," May 1997) and how it's fallen into disrepair. There has been a dispute between the state of New York and the …
Published: September 23, 1996 at 1:01 am
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THE STUFF AND THE PEOPLE
There's just one thing I have to know, and that's: Did Armistead get to seeHancock before he died?" The question came from a mother who, together withher children, had …
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