Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez wrote a controversial memoir disclosing her activities as a double agent and brave soldier during the Civil War.
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Fear in the Heart of North Carolina: “What an Awful and Grand Spectacle it is!”
In late March, 1865, a Federal cavalry division, under the command of Major General […]
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Hunley Crewmen Found
Two of the South’s great loves–college football and the Confederacy–came together in July when […]
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The Photographer of the Confederacy
In an attempt to explain why he undertook the task of battlefield photography during […]
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Nurse Pember and the Whiskey War
From atop Chimborazo Hill on the western outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, Phoebe Yates Pember, […]
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The Great Snowball Battle
Few real battles were fought with as much zeal as this one pitting Georgians against Tennesseans and involving only snowballs.
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CIVIL WAR SOLDIER PROFILE: From Farm to Prison
NAME: Llewellyn SmithDATES: 1836 to 1883ALLEGIANCE: UnionHIGHEST RANK: PrivateUNIT: 9th Maine Infantry, Company ISERVICE […]
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The Sperryville Outrage
Three men in blue thought they could get away with rape and terror on an isolated Virginia farm. They were wrong.
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Civil War Times: June 1999 Editorial
CHANGES AND CONSTANTS Things are changing fast at Civil War Times. It’s March 31–we […]