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66 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
1, Number 4 |
November
1988 |
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66 Pages |
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8 Andersonville commandant Henry Wirz paid the supreme price for the squalid Southern prison--but was he responsible? Page
10 James Eads' ironclads challenged Confederate control of the Mighty Mississippi. Page
12 Kentucky cavaliers, the dreaded "Alligator Horses," spread fear throughout the entire North. Page
18 Union Colonel Edward Cross's Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers struggled against time in order to build "the bridge that saved the army." Page
26 Armed with a copy of Lee's Lost Orders, Union General McClellan hurried to capture South Mountain's strategic gaps and trap the Rebel invaders in a deadly vise. Page
34 When John Singleton Mosby's Partisan Rangers clashed with George A. Custer's Union Cavalry, the niceties of war were the first casualty. Reprisal and counter-reprisal became the order of the day. Page
42 For years the Southern port of Mobile had been a particular bugbear for Union Admiral David Farragut. Now, at last, he was about to enter Mobile Bay and challenge the Confederacy's last Gulf port. Waiting inside, however, was the ironclad giant, CSS Tennessee. Page
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58 Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, held out until the bitter end.
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