America's
Civil War |
Volume
1, Number 3 |
September
1988 |
66 Pages |
Page
6 Page
8 At Burning Springs, Virginia, Union oil supplies became a military target for attacking Southerners. Page
10 The Sumter Flying Battery won its battle spurs with J.E.B. Stuart at the Battle of Dranesville. Page
12 Union General George H. Thomas won lasting fame as "the Rock of Chickamauga." Page
18 On January 31, 1863, one of the rare successes of the Confederate Navy caused General Beauregard to proclaim: "The blockade of Charleston is raised!" Page
26 With "Uncle Billy's" notorious "bummers" closing in fast, a ragtag Confederate army prepared for one last stand in the swampy countryside of Bentonville, North Carolina. Page
34 War-weary Missouri had seen much fighting since the days of John Brown. Now, it was seeing yet another series of battles, as Confederate General "Pap" Price came to call. Page
42 Ned Baker, Abraham Lincoln's old friend, wanted a "manly, determined war." At Ball's Bluff, Virginia, he found what he was looking for--and then some. Page
50 Follow Gettysburg's markers, and you can still hear the cannon's roar. Page
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