This vulnerable young private’s face has long been an icon of the Civil War. […]
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Explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal Rocks Pittsburgh
The late summer sun shone brightly on the two armies battling along Antietam Creek […]
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Jeb Stuart writes to Robert E. Lee’s son
Despite James Ewell Brown Stuart’s countless successes in the field,one goal continued to elude […]
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ACW Book Review: Gone With the Glory
Gone With the Glory: The Civil War in Cinema (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, […]
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So Much for Comrades in Arms
Confederate General “Rans” Wright put poison in his pen and wrote a controversial letter […]
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King of the Hill
‘Pap’ Greene dug in his men, fought like hell and saved the Union right […]
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Annihilation of a Regiment-July 3, 1863
The 6th U.S. Cavalry was out for a bit of glory near Gettysburg, but […]
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Wounded at Chickamauga
It was nearly sundown on Sunday, September 20,1863.Union Brigadier General Walter Whitaker’s green troops […]
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Antietam Time Travel: A Veteran of America’s Bloodiest Day Returns to Capture Photos of Scenes of Carnage
At 4 p.m. on September 18, 1891, Oliver Cromwell Gould, son of 10th Maine Infantry veteran John Mead Gould, took a photograph of Antietam’s East Woods, where his father had witnessed momentous events 29 years earlier.
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Jagdgeschwader Tactics
Before his days as head of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goring, a World War I fighter ace, wrote a revealing essay on tactics used by the German air force in the Great War