While Union commander George McClellan fumed and the Battle of Antietam hung in the balance, a handful of Rebels held off Federal troops at ‘Burnside Bridge.’
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Battle of Champion’s Hill
With Ulysses S. Grant’s army steadily menacing Vicksburg, Confederate General John Pemberton left the town’s comforting defenses to seek out the enemy army. Too late, he found it, at Champion’s Hill.
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Frederick Stowe: In the Shadow of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The fame of novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe followed her son throughout the Civil War.
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America’s Civil War: Union Soldiers Hanged in North Carolina
Eight months after Major General George E. Pickett led his famous charge, he hanged Union prisoners in North Carolina.
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Battle of Shiloh: The Devil’s Own Day
At a small Methodist meeting house in southwestern Tennessee, Union and Confederate armies met for a ‘must-win’ battle in the spring of 1862. No one, however, expected the bloodbath that ensued. It was, said General William Sherman, ‘the Devil’s own day.’
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Brigadier General Silas Casey at the Battle of Seven Pines
Brigadier General Silas Casey’s rookie division bore the brunt of furious Rebel assaults at the Battle of Seven Pines.
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Weaponry: The Rifle-Musket and the Minié Ball
The Civil War’s deadliest weapons were not rapid-fire guns or giant cannon, but the simple rifle-musket and the humble minié ball.
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J.E.B. Stuart’s Revenge
A stolen hat and wounded pride spurred Southern cavalryman J.E.B. Stuart into action. His vengeance would be swift, daring, and–unexpectedly–funny.
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Union General Judson Kilpatrick
Union General Judson Kilpatrick was flamboyant, reckless, tempestuous, and even licentious. In some respects he made other beaux sabreurs like fellow-cavalrymen George Custer and J. E. B. Stuart seem dull.
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Battle of Wilson’s Creek
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek helped to keep a critical border state out of the Confederacy.