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The Fire in the Rear: Clement Vallandigham and the Copperheads
An outspoken war critic raised the Union establishment’s hackles and put Abraham Lincoln on […]
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The Celebrity Soldier: Ulysses S. Grant
It took both military and political strategy to make Grant the darling of the Union.
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Historic Hyde Park: FDR’s Library and Home
During the toughest days of the Great Depression, with millions of Americans unemployed and […]
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Ballots and Bullets: Would Lincoln or Soldiers and Sailors Win the Election of 1864?
A blizzard howled across Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on New Year’s Day 1864, sending […]
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‘Atlanta is Gone’: The Last Great City Falls to the Union
Georgia Gov. Joseph E. Brown telegraphed a frantic plea from Atlanta to Confederate President […]
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GLOVES OFF: The Battle of The Atlantic
WHEN THE BATTLE of the Atlantic—the war’s longest campaign and history’s most destructive naval campaign—finally […]
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Take Command: French Foreign Legion in Mexico, 1863
YOU lead a company of legionnaires in desperate combat against a much larger Mexican […]
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Nathanael Greene’s Steeplechase in the Carolinas, 1781
When Nathanael Greene and Charles Cornwallis finally clashed at Guilford Courthouse, Cornwallis had bayonets and discipline. Greene had a surprise—and a war-winning strategy
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Book Review: Marcus Agrippa
Lindsay Powell has written the definitive book on one of ancient Rome’s greatest, if forgotten, military figures