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Published: April 30, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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Cavalier Gunner
By Robert J. Trout
Lewis T. Nunnelee kept a remarkably detailed diary
about fighting with Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's horse
artillery at …
Published: February 26, 2008 at 7:51 pm
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Killers in Green Coats [online]
By R.L. Murray
Many Rebels "bit the dust" when Colonel Hiram Berdan's marksmen took their deadly skills into the field during the 1862 …
Published: February 26, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Union Weapons in Rebel Hands
Gerald A. Patterson's article "Arming the South with Guns From the North" in the October 2007 issue examined the role of Paul J. Semmes (among other notable Confederates) in securing arms and munitions from Northern …
Published: December 20, 2007 at 11:50 am
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'This Is My Last Letter to You'
By Drew Gilpin Faust
The four-year bloodbath forced Americans to confront mortality as they never had before. The resulting cultural changes linger to this day.…
Published: December 20, 2007 at 11:48 am
Failed Expectation
The Civil War dashed many expectations, and the image on this page mocks two such instances: Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and the ironclad Galena. "Little Mac" was the West Point–trained exemplar of an American military man …
Published: November 15, 2007 at 3:27 pm
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Why Lew Was Late By Timothy B. Smith Union General Lew Wallace tried to convince anyone who would listen that he knew where he was and what he was doing at Shiloh …
Published: November 15, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Don't Forget Camp Morton
In the October 2007 "Ask Civil War Times" section, a reader asked whether there was a Union equivalent to the Confederacy's horrific Andersonville Prison. Your answer did not include Camp Morton, the infamous Union facility …
Published: November 15, 2007 at 3:25 pm
What brought about the defeat of the Confederacy? For many years the prevailing theory was fairly simple: The Confederacy lost by a force of arms, beaten down on battlefields such as Shiloh?(see P. 30) by numerically superior Union armies.
But …
Published: October 04, 2007 at 2:29 pm
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Against All Odds By Jason Phillips Diehard Rebels refused to accept defeat, finding strength in God, rumor and their own version of reality.
Singer's Secret Service Corp: Causing Chaos During the Civil …
Published: October 04, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Stories about a future president evolving from a greenhorn to a victorious commander in the wilds of Kentucky (P. 42), diehard Confederates who refused to lay down their arms (P. 22), veterans reuniting at Gettysburg (P. 36) and an artist …
Published: September 05, 2007 at 3:13 pm
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Black Soldiers, Southern Victory? By Frank van der Linden Major General Patrick Cleburne's plan to send slaves into battle fell on deaf ears and doomed his career.
Arming the South With Guns …
Published: September 05, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Madness Great and Small
The War Between the States was madness manifest on a grand scale in its enormous loss of life, limb and treasure. But madness at a more personal level also shaped the course of the war in …
Published: August 02, 2007 at 10:20 am
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The Fierce Pride of the Texas Brigade By Susannah U. Bruce Duty, honor and a fervent desire to preserve the storied reputation of the Lone Star State are what drove Robert E. …
Published: August 02, 2007 at 10:20 am
More "Sharpshooter" Mystery
The appearance in the July issue of my favorite photograph, the one of a Confederate sharpshooter at Devil's Den, plus the review of William Frassanito's Gettysburg: A Journey in Time, which discussed the posing of that …
Published: August 02, 2007 at 10:19 am
Who Says What War Is About?
The Civil War was a volunteer war. Yes, there were professional soldiers in the ranks, and eventually even some conscripts. But the vast majority of men who fought in this war—millions of them—enlisted of …
Published: June 29, 2007 at 3:59 pm
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At Washington's Gates: Jubal Early's Chance to Take the CapitolBy Marc LeepsonJubal Early nearly derailed the Union war effort with his daring run through Virginia and Maryland in July 1864, …
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