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The Civil War at 150: Selections From MHQ
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Calm Before the Storm: 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment in the Northern Shenandoah Valley, 1861
After Virginia’s secession in 1861 and the start of the Civil War, General Joseph E. Johnston and his men experienced an idyllic summer in the northern Shenandoah Valley.
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Building the Army of the Potomac
Stephen Sears writes of how the Army of the Potomac’s politically appointed generals and short-term volunteer troops nearly unhinged Lincoln’s plans in 1861 to win the Civil War.
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Blackbeard’s Last Battle
Long before the Somali pirates, there was Blackbeard. In 1718, he met his match in a former British privateer.
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The Truth About JFK and His PT Boat’s Collision with a Japanese Destroyer in WWII
The PT-109 disaster made JFK a hero. But his fury and grief at the loss of two men sent him on a dangerous quest to get even
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Taking Stock of the Pony Express
The short-lived horseback mail service known as the Pony Express, which operated 150 years ago, was a business failure but a romantic triumph.
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The Truth About Devil Boats
During World War II, adroit navy public relations and obliging media coverage wrapped PT boats in glamour. Initially designed for dangerous nighttime attacks on much larger Japanese warships, the boats came to be seen as intrepid little heroes, America’s Davids taking on Japan’s Goliaths of the sea.
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John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 Disaster
The most famous collision in U.S. Navy history occurred at about 2:30 a.m. on August 2, 1943, a hot, moonless night in the Pacific. Patrol Torpedo boat 109 was idling in Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. The 80-foot craft had orders to attack enemy ships on a resupply mission. With virtually no warning, a Japanese destroyer emerged from the black night and smashed into PT-109, slicing it in two and igniting its fuel tanks.
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Last Chance for Peace: Fort Sumter at 150
For months the Confederates trained dozens of guns on Fort Sumter. But no one seemed eager for war.