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66 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
1, Number 1 |
May
1988 |
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66 Pages |
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8 At Sabine Pass, Confederate Dick Dowling almost single-handedly saved Texas for the Southern cause. Page
10 The British-made Whitworth Rifle, in the hands of Southern sharpshooters, was the scourge of Union soldiers. Page
12 Union Colonel John T. Wilder's vaunted "Lightning Brigade" was a stranger to defeat. Page
18 "Dandy" Harry Wilson aimed his Union cavalry straight for the heart of Dixie, the vital Southern arsenal at Selma. In his way, however, stood "That Devil Forrest" and his ragtag army. Page
26 Confederate hopes for a frontier empire came down to the holding of a boulder-strewn pass in Apache Canyon, New Mexico. One way or another, the battle of Glorietta Pass would be a western Gettysburg. Page
34 At Gaines' Mill, just outside Richmond, Robert E. Lee gambled all on his foremost lieutenant. But where was Stonewall Jackson? Page
42 For Confederate Bennett Henderson Young, sleepy, isolated St. Albans, Vermont, seemed a fair target for a military raid. The U.S. government thought otherwise. Page
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58 Missouri holds many reminders of Civil War struggles.
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