Even as General Robert E. Lee was surrendering at Appomattox, a vengeful Union cavalry horde led by Maj. Gen. George Stoneman made Southern civilians pay dearly for the war. It was a last brutal lesson in the concept of total warfare.
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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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Nothing But Glory Gained – Account of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg
Just before 3 o’clock on the morning of July 3, 1863, Robert E. Lee […]
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Confused First Flight
At Philippi, in western Virginia, one overly optimistic young colonel confidently awaited reinforcements as […]
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Carnage in a Cornfield
Mr. Miller’s humble cornfield near Antietam Creek became the unlikely setting for perhaps the […]
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America’s Civil War: September 1998 From the Editor
In love, as in war, Confederate General John Bell Hood was the personification of […]
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Beating the Pack to the Pole
The Fokker Trimotor Josephine Ford survived mishaps and beat fierce competition to be the first aircraft to fly over the top of the world, carrying Richard E. Byrd into history.
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Red Stars Over Berlin
Soviet bombers raided the capital of Germany in mid-1941 but caused little damage—and left little warning of the terrible retribution to come later.
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The Cactus Air Force: A Thorn in Japan’s Side
A small group of die-hard aviators fended off Japanese invaders at Guadalcanal, code-named ‘Cactus.’
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CHRISTMAS IN THE CIVIL WAR
Whether in camp, in prison, or on the homefront, Christmas came—and so did Saint Nicholas!