After the conclusion of Pickett’s Charge, ill-advised Union cavalry attacks killed dozens of Federal horsemen and a promising brigadier general.
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The Undertaker’s Role During the American Civil War
The humble undertaker performed a distasteful but all too necessary role during the Civil War.
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Battle of Antietam: Carnage in a Cornfield
Mr. Miller’s humble cornfield near Antietam Creek became the unlikely setting for perhaps the worst fighting of the entire Civil War.
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Major General George Stoneman Led the Last American Civil War Cavalry Raid
Even as General Robert E. Lee was surrendering at Appomattox, a vengeful Union cavalry horde led by Maj. Gen. George Stoneman made Southern civilians pay dearly for the war. It was a last brutal lesson in the concept of total warfare.
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Battle of Resaca: Botched Union Attack
William Tecumseh Sherman waited expectantly to hear that his accomplished young protégé, James B. McPherson, had successfully gotten astride the railroad at Resaca and cut off the Confederate line of retreat. Hours went by with no word from McPherson. What was ‘Mac’ doing in Snake Creek Gap?
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Martha Derby Perry: Eyewitness to the 1863 New York City Draft Riots
The wife of a bedridden Union surgeon was a horrified witness to the New York City Draft Riots of July 1863.
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Oscar Friedensohn Recalls Leading an Assault Boat Across the Rhine River During World War II
A combat engineer will never forget the day he led an assault boat across the Rhine River and into the teeth of the German defenses at St. Goarshausen
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George Washington: His Troubles with Slavery
After wending his way through the economic, political and moral quagmire of slavery, in his will—his final and most symbolic message to the nation—George Washington presented a blueprint for ending the ‘Peculiar Institution.’
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Battle of Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War
The bloodiest battle of the Pacific War claimed more than 150,000 Japanese and American casualties.
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How the Buffalo Soldiers Helped Break Through the Gothic Line in World War II
The African American 92nd Infantry Division took on formidable German opposition in its push up the Italian boot.