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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
An illiterate North Carolina soldier paid the ultimate price for deserting the Confederate state...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
For more than a century, the fighting that occurred at John Kuhn’s brickyard was often a mere footnote in the history of the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. ...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
The general and president Ulysses S. Grant wanted the world to know his thoughts about the Civil War and his role in the conflict....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
In the summer and fall of 1863, Eastern Tennessee would be center stage for critical Western Theater fighting....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
In the confusion following Lee’s rout of the Union Army, members of the 18th North Carolina mistakenly fired into a party of Confederate officers....
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Ella Lonn’s publications, in both quantity and topical reach, made her the most important woman in the field between the 1920s and the 1950s....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
On an unseasonably hot afternoon in Charleston, S.C., last fall, a few intrepid civil warriors were fully prepared for a boat “assault” on a small fortress in Charleston Harbor....
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
In 1985, author and artist Peter Svenson was looking for farmland in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Exasperated in his search, he asked a local farmer, “Well, do you know anyone around here who’s got land for sale?” “I’ll sell...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
A Confederate soldier, his youthful face turned toward the viewer, lies behind a stone wall built between two boulders in Gettysburg’s notorious Devil’s Den. ...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Somehow, Colonel M.D.L. Stephens had remained unscathed as he led his 31st Mississippi Infantry toward the death-dealing Union earthworks at the November 30, 1864, Battle of Franklin. ...
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Not only did the Confederacy have forward-thinking technocrats who created “futuristic” weaponry, it also produced at least one visionary weapons genius: Gabriel James Rains....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
In October 1859, while serving as a U.S. Army lieutenant, J.E.B. Stuart filed for and eventually received U.S. Patent #25,684: “Improved Method of Attaching Sabers to Belts.”...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Drawing on personal stories, Ed Ayers follows two counties through the Confederate invasion of Gettysburg to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and the contentious struggles that followed to cross “the boundary between the war and...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
Were confederate deserters really losing the will to fight? Historians examining Confederate defeat often describe desertion as both a symptom and a cause. As conditions behind the lines worsened, loved ones begged soldiers to return home....
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AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR MAGAZINE
Profiteers on both sides of the war lined their own pockets at their countries’ expense...
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CIVIL WAR TIMES MAGAZINE
The Army of Northern Virginia went to war with itself in February 1863 ...