Blue Lightning: Wilder’s Brigade in the Battle of Chickamauga, by RichardA. Baumgartner, Blue Acorn […]
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Book Review: Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne (Craig L. Symonds) : ACW
Irish-born Confederate General Patrick Cleburne earned the high accolade, ‘the Stonewall of the West.’ […]
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Book Review: THE GREAT REPUBLIC: A HISTORY OF AMERICA (by Sir Winston Churchill, edited by Winston S. Churchill) : AH
THE GREAT REPUBLIC: A HISTORY OF AMERICA, by Sir Winston Churchill, edited by Winston […]
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Book Review: TALKING WITH JOHN FERLING: AH
TALKING WITH JOHN FERLING John Ferling knows perfectly well that he is guilty of […]
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Multi-Media Review: Close Combat : MH
Close Combat, $49.95 a Windows 95 CD-ROM for $44.95 from Microsoft (800-426-9400), is a […]
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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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THE SAVIOR OF CINCINNATI
Long before he published Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace rose from a career as an obscure small-town Indiana lawyer to take a prominent role in the Civil War.
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The GI Bill
More than 2,250,000 American veterans of WWII received at least part of their college education as a result of legislation known as “the GI Bill.”
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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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Pioneering Air-Sea Engagement
Didier Masson’s 1913 attack on a Federalist gunboat at the behest of Mexican rebels was one of the earliest airstrikes carried out against a naval vessel.