The Civil War’s deadliest weapons were not rapid-fire guns or giant cannon, but the simple rifle-musket and the humble minié ball.
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They paid to enter Libby Prison
A drafty Richmond deathtrap for captured Yankees became a tourist trap after the war–600 miles away!
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Heroine or Hoaxer?
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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Operation Saar: A Lost Opportunity
In September 1939, while the Germans concentrated on fighting in Poland, the French army invaded Germany from the west.
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Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach
When troops of the U.S. 1st and 29th divisions hit the beach on D-Day, they were facing an unexpected adversary—the German 352nd Infantry Division.
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Commands: The Quaker-dominated Loudoun Rangers openly defied Virginia tradition to serve the Union
The Quaker-dominated Loudoun Rangers openly defied Virginia tradition to serve the Union.
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Missouri in the Balance Struggle for St. Louis
The dark clouds of civil war gathered over the nation as two aggressive factions–the Wide-Awakes and the Minutemen–plotted to gain political control of Missouri and its most important city, St. Louis.As is often the case, political power began at the end of a gun.
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Confused First Flight
At Philippi, in western Virginia, one overly optimistic young colonel confidently awaited reinforcements as […]
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Carnage in a Cornfield
Mr. Miller’s humble cornfield near Antietam Creek became the unlikely setting for perhaps the […]
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Judson Kilpatrick
Union General Judson Kilpatrick was flamboyant, reckless, tempestuous, and even licentious.