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This leader never asked his men to do something he wouldn’t—and didn’t—do himself.

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Why the battle means so much to us when it mattered so little.

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Daily Quiz for April 9, 2011

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This US Army officer was second in command at Fort Sumter during the siege that started the American Civil War.

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