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These French Made Weapons Changed the Face of America’s Civil War
Ninety percent of Civil War casualities owed their fate to a deceptively simple hand-held gun and its companion projectile: the rifle-musket and the minié bullet
Target: Railroad Town Corinth
The strategic railroad town of Corinth was a key target for Confederate armies hoping to march north in support of General Braxton Bragg’s invasion of Kentucky.
The North’s Unsung Sisters of Mercy
A cadre of dedicated Northern women from all walks of life traveled to the charnel houses of the Civil War to care for the sick and wounded.
Camp William Penn’s Black Soldiers In Blue
Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American […]
Frederick Stowe in the shadow of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The fame of novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe followed her son throughout the Civil War.
Germs, deadlier than bullets?
Germs, not bullets, were a Civil War soldier’s deadliest foes. Army doctors were a […]
The Widow-Makers
The Civil War’s deadliest weapons were not rapid-fire guns or giant cannon, but the simple rifle-musket and the humble minié ball.
The Colonel was a Con Man
If he was the son of Lord Byron, if he had been a major general in the Persian army, then why was he a private in the Union army?