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CWT Today- February 2008
Rare Image of Lee’s Antietam Rock The faded carte de visite at right just […]
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CWT Book Review: History Teaches Us to Hope
History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History by […]
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‘Only Take the Top Rail’
Armies in blue and gray laid waste to thousands of miles of fencelines that […]
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Killing Jackson: At Chancellorsville, one of the Confederacy’s best fighting brigades doomed the South
In the confusion following Lee’s rout of the Union Army, members of the 18th North Carolina mistakenly fired into a party of Confederate officers.
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The Rocky Road to Reconciliation
Moves to establish friendly relations between the U.S. and postwar Vietnam were marked by 20 years of diplomatic twists and turns
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CWT Book Review: Fighting for Defeat
Fighting for Defeat: Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865 By Michael C.C. Adams […]
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Cavalier Gunner
The diary entries of one of J.E.B. Stuart’s renowned Horse Artillerymen chronicle the Battle […]
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Small Planes, Big Thrills: The Mighty Midgets
Born with the homebuilt lightplane movement in the 1920s, the “Builder’s Class” of Formula One racers continues to thrill spectators today at Reno.
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Jefferson Davis and the Politics of Command
The Southern president’s single-minded commitment to victory undercut the Confederacy’s chance for success.