America's
Civil War |
Volume
1, Number 5 |
January
1989 |
66 Pages |
Page
6 Page
8 The quick-firing Henry Rifle spelled trouble for attacking infantry. Page
10 German-born artilleryman Hubert Dilger was better known as "Leatherbreeches." Page
12 The 2nd Kansas Militia was inexperienced but brave to a fault. Page
18 At Allatoona, Georgia, Union defenders grimly held out against Confederate attackers, all the while waiting for Sherman to arrive. Page
26 The grayclad Army of Tennessee slowly marched down Winstead Hill toward the horrific fate both sides knew was waiting outside Franklin. Page
34 The Union soldiers preparing to charge Robert E. Lee's entrenched Rebels pinned scraps of paper with their names on it to help the gravediggers they knew would need help in identifying their bodies. Page
42 An absolutely livid General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson shouted for his retreating troops to stand and "give them the bayonet." But at Kernstown, Virginia, the mighty Jackson tsted his first and only true defeat. Page
50 Although he only lived there a year, U.S. Grant's spirit pervades Galena, Illinois. Page
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