When Apache warriors swooped down on the defenseless Oatman family in sunbleached Arizona in 1851, the harrowing nightmare was just beginning for Olive Oatman and her little sister Mary Ann.
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The Civil War Experience: 1861-1865 (Book Review)
Reviewed by Partick Alan By Jay Wertz Presidio Press Civil War enthusiasts are unable […]
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Dred Scott Decision: The Lawsuit That Started The Civil War
Slavery, threats of seccesion and other factors made America a tinderbox in 1857 — all it needed was a match.
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George Armstrong Custer: Between Myth and Reality
Reality and myth about George Custer still collide on the battlefields of Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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USS Indianola: Union Ironclad in the American Civil War
The powerful Union ironclad Indianola was jinxed from the start–poor design and bad morale made the vessel an accident waiting to happen. Near Vicksburg, she ultimately fulfilled her ill-starred destiny.
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Battle of New Market Heights: USCT Soldiers Proved Their Heroism
On a gunfire-swept slope near Richmond on September 29, 1864, USCT soldiers stood to the test and proved black men made good professional troops. Fourteen of them received the Medal of Honor for their bravery.
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USS Missouri: Served in World War II and Korean War
World War II ended on the deck of the USS Missouri. Five years later the Korean War broke out–and the ‘Mighty Mo’ was the only U.S. battleship ready to fight.
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Account Of The Battle of the Wilderness
In the dark, forbidding woods of Virginia’s Wilderness, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee stumbled blindly toward their first wartime encounter. Neither had a clear idea of his opponent’s intentions, but each planned to do what he did best–attack.
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Battle of Harpers Ferry
Harpers Ferry was the scene of an important 1862 battle in Lee’s Maryland campaign and a prelude to ‘Bloody Antietam.’
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Black Hawk War
Outnumbered and harried through trackless swamps, Black Hawk’s starving band of Sauk Indians made a desperate stand along the Mississippi.