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America's Civil War
New York Tribune reporter George Smalley scooped the world with his vivid account of the Battle of Antietam. ...
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thePROVINGground The Mexican War gave future civil war generals their first taste of combat JOHN C. WAUGH Chatham Roberdeau Wheat would one day lead a famous Louisiana battalion called “Wheat’s Tigers” into battle for the...
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America's Civil War
Hancock's 'Well-Conducted Fizzle' With Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia stubbornly clinging to Petersburg,Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its vital rail lines. To perform the surgery, he selected one of the North’s...
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HistoryNet
Winchester, Virginia, saw more of the war than any other place North or South a town EMBATTLED CHRIS FORDNEY Ten thousand Confederate troops filled the small town of Winchester, Virginia, early in the summer of 1861. Soldiers were...
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America's Civil War
The Lightning Brigade Saves the Day Armed with their new, lethal seven-shot Spencer rifles, Wilder’s Lightning Brigade was all that stood between the Union Army and the looming disaster at Chickamauga Creek. By Hubert M. Jordan...
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America's Civil War
Ewell Seizes the Day at WINCHESTER By Dean M. Wells One month after Stonewall Jackson’s death at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee turned to Stonewall’s trusted lieutenant, Richard Ewell, to cover his invasion of the North. Was...
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America's Civil War, Archives
From the EditorAmerica's Civil War Judson Kilpatrick’s thwarted raid on Richmond had a sinister motive behind it–nothing less than coldblooded murder. When Major General William T. Sherman called his new cavalry chief,...
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America's Civil War
Return To The Killing Ground By Jeffry D. Wert Brash, bombastic John Pope tempted fate by returning to the old battleground at Manassas. He thought he had caught Robert E. Lee napping. He was wrong. A heavy, soaking rain fell across...
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America's Civil War
PERSONALITY Father John B. Tabb, an unreconstructed Rebel to the end, had served the Confederacy aboard blockade runners. By Charles A. Earp The Tabbs of Amelia County were one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Vir-ginia, owning...
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World War II
Undercover The intercepted communications of an American in Cairo provided a secret ear for the Desert Fox. By Wil Deac During the 1941-1942 tug of war for North Africa, the British benefited from radio-intercept-derived Ultra information....
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World War II
The rise of militaristic nationalism led Japan down the road to Pearl Harbor and World War II. By Wil Deac Japan in the 1920s was a nation caught in a cultural vise. Pressure on one side came from its hermit heritage, based on complex...
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World War II
Personality Marine Sergeant Al Schmid lost an eye while heroically manning a machine gun in bloody fighting on Guadalcanal. By William B. Allmon In 1945, Warner Brothers released a movie titled Pride of the Marines, based on a book by...
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World War II
The Brandenburg commandos were the warrior spies of the Abwehr, Germany’s intelligence agency. By Christopher Lew During World War I, the legacy of German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s superb guerrilla war in East Africa...
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World War II
Armament Romania’s indigenous fighter, the IAR 80, saw service in defense of its homeland and against the Soviets. By Timothy J. Kutta The Romanian aircraft industry was created in the early 1920s because that country’s...
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World War II
In the crucible of Operation Torch, the men of Sub-Task Force Goalpost received their baptism of fire capturing the Moroccan town of Port Lyautey. by Pierre Comtois The darkened ships of Sub-Task Force Goalpost lay silentlyoff the coast of...
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World War II
Personality The ‘Tiger of Malaya,’ General Tomoyuki Yamashita, was hanged near Manila in retribution for Japanese war crimes. By Nat Helms In measured steps a column of five men enters the screened enclosure concealing the...
