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  • America's Civil War1 min read
    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 War11 min read
    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 War3 min readAmerican 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
    America's Civil War2 min read
    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
    America's Civil War2 min read
    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 War1 min readAmerican 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
    America's Civil War5 min read
    ‘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
    America's Civil War1 min read
    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
    America's Civil War7 min read
    ‘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
    America's Civil War1 min read
    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
    America's Civil War2 min read
    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
    America's Civil War1 min read
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    America's Civil War1 min read
    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
    America's Civil War1 min read
    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
    America's Civil War1 min read
    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
    America's Civil War5 min readAmerican Government
    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
    America's Civil War12 min read
    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
    America's Civil War13 min read
    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
    America's Civil War5 min read
    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
    America's Civil War1 min read
    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.
    America's Civil War1 min read
    ‘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
    America's Civil War1 min read
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    America's Civil War9 min read
    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
    America's Civil War2 min read
    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
    America's Civil War2 min read
    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
    America's Civil War18 min read
    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
    America's Civil War8 min read
    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
    America's Civil War1 min read
    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
    America's Civil War1 min read
    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
    America's Civil War15 min read
    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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