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Wargame Construction Set III: Age of Rifles (SSI, $49.95). Wargame Construction Set III: Age […]

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Ninety percent of Civil War casualities owed their fate to a deceptively simple hand-held gun and its companion projectile: the rifle-musket and the minié bullet

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For half a decade before the Civil War, residents of the neighboring states of Missouri and Kansas waged their own civil war. It was a conflict whose scars were a long time in healing.

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War’s Last Cavalry Raid

by HistoryNet Staff9/23/19984/30/2024

Even as General Robert E. Lee was surrendering at Appomattox, a vengeful Union cavalry horde led by Maj. Gen. George Stoneman made Southern civilians pay dearly for the war. It was a last brutal lesson in the concept of total warfare.

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On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, we look back with pride at promises […]

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Munfordville, Kentucky, proudly preserves its Civil War heritage—including, some say, a wartime ghost.

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Confederate Captain Charles Bruce kept his father apprised of conditions during the crucial Peninsula campaign.

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