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Swedish-Led Artic Expedition in a Balloon Led to a Tragic End
It took 30 years to learn the fate of the first expedition to fly across the North Pole.
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Stonewall Jackson’s Last Days
Dr. Hunter McGuire, Stonewall Jackson’s 27-year-old medical director, chronicled the general’s last days.
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America’s Civil War: Savage Skirmish Near Sharpsburg
With Robert E. Lee’s wily Confederates waiting somewhere in the vicinity of Antietam Creek, Union General George McClellan ordered I Corps commander Joseph Hooker to advance and turn the Rebel flank. But McClellan, for once, was too quick to move, and Hooker soon found himself in an unexpectedly vicious fight.
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Second Battle of Winchester: Richard Ewell Takes Command
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 ‘Old Bald Head’ up to the challenge?
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America’s Civil War: XI Corps Fight During the Chancellorsville Campaign
Disliked and distrusted by their comrades in the Army of the Potomac, the men of the XI Corps would find their reputation further damaged by a twilight encounter with Stonewall Jackson’s troops in the dark woods at Chancellorsville.
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Joseph Scroggs: Observations From His Diary About the 1864 Petersburg Campaign
Excerpts from Joseph Scroggs’ diary provide his observations on the service of Negro troops under his command on the Civil War battlefields.
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Battle of Chancellorsville: Day One
New Union commander ‘Fighting Joe’ Hooker planned to encircle Robert E. Lee at the Virginia crossroads hamlet of Chancellorsville. The plan seemed to be working perfectly, until….
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Lieutenant Zenji Abe: A Japanese Pilot Remembers
As Lieutenant Zenji Abe left the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi and approached Pearl Harbor in his Aichi dive bomber, he recalled that everything was proceeding ‘just like an exercise.’
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Battle of Bataan: Brigadier General Clyde A. Selleck Commands the Layac Line
The Japanese march of conquest through the Philippines was slowed by a patchwork defensive line on the plain before the Bataan Peninsula.