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    Put Up or Shut Up
    Because wars tend to feature short battles and long periods of inactivity in between, soldiers always did their best to pursue relaxing undertakings. One widely popular pursuit involved fishing in local rivers or ponds, a pastime that served a dual p
    America's Civil WarLeitura de 11 mins
    A Man Of ‘Latent Power’
    Passengers riding the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in early 1864 witnessed a bleak landscape disfigured by nearly three years of war. “Dilapidated, fenceless, and trodden with War Virginia is,” Walt Whitman recorded on a trip from Washington, D.C., t
    America's Civil WarLeitura de 3 minsAmerican Government
    Grant Vs. The Klan
    They came for Wyatt Outlaw in the dark of night. Burning torches lit their white robes and hoods, masking their identities but illuminating the evil intentions in their hearts. They snatched Outlaw from his home in front of his family, dragged him do
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    Lucky Seven
    Few men in war want to use their sidearm unless forced to. But when the situation arises, why not have seven bullets in your pistol instead of six? Daniel Moore of the Moore Patent Firearms Company was among those who surely agreed with that. His .32
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    COLONEL Louis H. Marshall
    “[Robert E. Lee Jr.] is off with Jackson & I hope will catch Pope & his cousin Louis Marshall,” General Robert E. Lee wrote to his daughter Mildred on July 28, 1862, not long after Maj. Gen. John Pope had been given command of the Union Army of Virgi
    America's Civil WarLeitura de 1 minsAmerican Government
    Development Turmoil
    The American Battlefield Trust, joined by private citizens and several nonprofit preservation groups, has filed a demand for sworn responses and documents from Orange County, Va., and its Board of Supervisors as part of an ongoing lawsuit related to
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    ‘Devil Dan’
    “IT WAS EITHER A GOOD LINE, or a bad one, and, whichever it was, I took it on my own responsibility….I took up that line because it enabled me to hold commanding ground, which, if the enemy had been allowed to take—as they would have taken it if I ha
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    America’s Civil War
    Michael A. Reinstein Chairman & Publisher Chris K. Howland Editor Jerry Morelock Senior Editor Richard H. Holloway Senior Editor Brian Walker Group Design Director Alex Griffith Director of Photography Austin Stahl Associate Design Director Claire Ba
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    ‘Bully For The Indiana 20th!’
    WRITING HOME IN THE early morning hours of July 2, 1863, it likely crossed John Wheeler’s mind that this might be the last letter he would ever write. Wary of the impending combat he and his men were about to face on Gettysburg’s second day, the 20th
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    On The Trail Of A Killer
    historynet.com/confederate-guerrilla-champ-ferguson What happened today, yesterday—or any day you care to search. Test your historical acumen—every day! Consider the fallout of historical events had they gone the ‘other’ way. The gadgetry of war—new
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    Under Pressure
    TOURNIQUETS ARE AN ESSENTIAL TOOL in the kit of today’s combat medics and first responders, and their use has been documented since 600 BCE in India. Ancient tourniquets, however, consisted of only a few simple strips of leather with no mechanism to
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    Rugged Accessories For The Never-enough-gadgets Guy. Just Initial Here.
    The Personalization Experts Since 1951 *FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $50. USE PROMO CODE: HISACWS4 LILLIANVERNON.COM/ACW OFFER EXPIRES 4/30/24. ONLY ONE PROMO CODE PER ORDER. OFFERS CANNOT BE COMBINED. OFFER APPLIES TO STANDARD SHIPPING ONLY. ALL ORD
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    Pulled From a Watery Tar Pit
    During a recent $20 million cleanup campaign of South Carolina’s Congaree River, scores of Confederate artifacts were recovered from a watery grave. The priceless artifacts, mainly cannons, shells, swords, and military accoutrements such as a wagon w
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    How Many Confirmed Air Combat Victories Did The Red Baron Achieve?
    52, 66, 80, or 113? For more, visit HISTORYNET.COM/MAGAZINES/QUIZ HISTORYNET ANSWER: THE FAMED FLYING ACE, WHOSE REAL NAME WAS MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN, IS OFFICIALLY CREDITED WITH 80 AIR COMBAT VICTORIES BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 1916 AND APRIL 1918. HE ALSO
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    Mexican Apprentices
    A. George G. Meade B. James Longstreet C. George B. McClellan D. Braxton Bragg  E. Christopher H. Carson F. Thomas J. Jackson G. Winfield Scott Hancock H. Jefferson Davis I. David G. Farragut J. Robert E. Lee 1. 3rd U.S. Artillery 2. Corps of Enginee
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    Disarming Reconstruction
    THE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS of 1867 entirely upended society in the American South, enfranchising Black men across the states of the former Confederacy and placing those states (except Tennessee) under the authority of the U.S. military. The acts created
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    Straight From the Field
    When 21-year-old Arthur McKinstry left Chautauqua County, N.Y., in early June 1861 to join the Excelsior Brigade being raised by then-Colonel Daniel Sickles, he was better prepared to write than fight. Upon reaching the unit’s camp of instruction on
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    Severed Memories
    In September 1861, while stationed in Paducah, Ky., Private John H. Page of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery received notice that he had been promoted to second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry and was to report for duty in Washington, D.C. After
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    War at Their Doorstep
    Although only minor National Park Service signage alerts you to the boundaries of the vast Gettysburg battlefield at its outer edges bleeding into neighboring counties, it’s almost impossible not to know by instinct when you’ve crossed the threshold
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    A Road Trip Like No Other! Battlefields, Forts And A Wild Boar
    For more than a year, John Banks crisscrossed the country, exploring battlefields, historic houses, forts, and more. He rode on the back of an ATV with his “psychotic connection” in Mississippi, went under the spell of an amateur hypnotist at a U.S.
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    ‘Five Layers of Bodies Removed’
    SOLDIERS WENT TO great lengths to locate, identify, and return the remains of their fallen comrades. When Colonel George W. Morgan, who later led the Union 13th Corps at the Battle of Arkansas Post, discovered that 2nd Lt. Alexander P. Rodgers, the n
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    Murder Along The Rio Grande
    Arthur James Lyon Fremantle left Great Britain aboard a ship on March 2, 1863, headed for the northern border of Mexico. After a long voyage, the young British army officer finally arrived on April 1 “at the miserable village of Bagdad” on the Mexica
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    Resonating Light of War
    The Nameless and the Faceless of the Civil War: Gettysburg, Manassas & More, a collection of poems penned by one of our valuable contributors, Lisa Samia, was published in May 2023. It’s a fascinating, personal, and refreshingly different take on the
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    Separate Legacies
    When one hears the name of a Civil War general named Bee, the first reaction for most is the Confederate commander from South Carolina who shouted to his men at the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861: “Look men, there stands Jackson like a sto
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    Very Convenient Truth
    “No action of the civil war has been so little understood as that of Seven Pines,” Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston would write in his 1874 memoir, Narrative of Military Operations. Ironic, as Johnston’s own actions during and after the critica
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    Art On The Move
    As it is today, entertainment was an important part of life in the 19th century—and for soldiers stationed far from home, even the smallest distraction from homesickness was essential. Limited options were readily available, however. Antebellum audie
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    General Meat Grinder
    A. BG George B. Anderson B. BG Lawrence O’Bryan Branch C. MG Jesse L. Reno D. MG Israel B. Richardson E. BG Isaac Peace Rodman F. MG Joseph King Fenno Mansfield G. BG William E. Starke H. BG Samuel Garland Jr. 1. WIA Sunken Road, died November 3, 186
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    More UK Vet Success
    Francis Albemar McDougal, a native of the United Kingdom who fought with the 111th Pennsylvania Infantry in 1863-65, had an official headstone dedicated in April 2023 at his grave site in London. Gina Denham, co-founder of Monuments for UK Veterans o
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    Reset In Maryland
    Debate about the importance of the loss of Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders No. 191 to the outcome of the September 1862 Maryland Campaign has long revolved around the response of Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan upon reading the document found by a

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