It sometimes seemed that Southern generals were more interested in fighting each other than in fighting Yankees. Their inability to get along together contributed greatly to the South’s demise.
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QUANTRILL’S LAST RIDE
When Confederate fortunes plummeted in Missouri, fearsome guerrilla leader William Clarke Quantrill and his band of hardened killers headed east to terrorize Union soldiers and civilians in Kentucky. It would be Quantrill’s last hurrah.
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America’s Civil War: May 1999 From the Editor
The ill wind at Iuka blew away all hope of future cooperation between Ulysses […]
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A Doomed Engagement
Like Philadelphia’s Catherine Hewitt, Mobile-born Susan Tarleton lost her fiancé-general to an enemy bullet.
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America’s Civil War: March 1999 From the Editor
Far from being ashamed of their wartime actions, Quantrill’s raiders held gala reunions to […]
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America’s Civil War: January 1999 From the Editor
Confederate General Charles Sidney Winder found himself smack in the middle of the Jackson-Garnett […]
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America’s Civil War: November 1999 From the Editor
For 9-year-old Willy Sherman, a carefree visit to the battlefield brought him a fatal […]
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Germs, deadlier than bullets?
Germs, not bullets, were a Civil War soldier’s deadliest foes. Army doctors were a […]
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Navy Helldivers Strike Hyuga
A raid on the Japanese battleship-carrier Hyuga was an arduous task for fliers of Air Group 87 from USS Ticonderoga.
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Thunderbolts Over Normandy: “Hub” Zemke’s P-47s Hit the Beach on D-Day
On the afternoon of June 5, 1944, “Hub” Zemke returned to Boxted from a […]