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These French Made Weapons Changed the Face of America’s Civil War
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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MANTLED IN FIRE AND SMOKE
The Battle of Gettysburg, and perhaps the fate of the Union, was decided in one hour of desperate fighting on the rocky ledges of Little Round Top.
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WHEAT’S TIGERS: Confederate Zouaves at First Manassas
Recruited from New Orleans’ teeming waterfront by soldier of fortune Roberdeau Wheat, the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion more than lived up to its pugnacious nickname—Wheat’s Tigers—at the First Battle of Manassas.
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Civil War Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers
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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Literal Hill of Death
With Ulysses S. Grant’s army steadily menacing Vicksburg, Confederate General John Pemberton left the town’s comforting defenses to seek out the enemy army. Too late, he found it, at Champion’s Hill.
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Desperate Stand at Chickamauga
Brigadier General John King’s disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never […]
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Camp William Penn’s Black Soldiers In Blue
Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American […]
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Stonewall’s Only Defeat
A furious Stonewall Jackson watched impotently as his proud Confederates stumbled down the hillside at Kernstown, Va. “Give them the bayonet,” Jackson implored–but no one obeyed.
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In the Confederate Army, Generals Feuded and Fought
It sometimes seemed that Southern generals were more interested in fighting each other than in fighting Yankees. Their inability to get along together contributed greatly to the South’s demise.