NAME: William Findlay RogersDATES: March 1, 1820 to December 16, 1899ALLEGIANCE: UnionHIGHEST RANK: Brevet […]
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Remembering Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate Captain Joseph Graham offers a different perspective on the Battle of Gettysburg, particularly its final hours.
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Civil War Times: October 1998 Editorial
Sherman the Defendant What would have happened to Sherman, had he lived in the […]
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Civil War Times: December 1998 Editorial
A Little Reverence, Please Did you ever get blamed for something you didn’t do? […]
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Civil War Times: June 1998 Editorial
STORY TIME “Tell me a story, Dad.” It was with those words that many […]
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Civil War Times: August 1998 Editorial
THE PUDDINGSTONE Sometime in the spring of 1886, workers pried an 18-ton boulder out […]
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The Death of Wilhautyah
When a white settler killed a Nez Perce warrior in 1876, the incident set off a chain of events that led to war.
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“All We Want Is Make Us Free”
An 1839 mutiny aboard a Spanish ship in Cuban waters raised basic questions about freedom and slavery in the United States.
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The Optical Aleutian
When American forces attempted to drive the Japanese from the Aleutian island of Kiska in August 1943, they found an unexpected enemy.
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The Great Feud
Paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh were great rivals, and their mutual animosity fueled the search for fossils in the American West.