America's
Civil War |
Volume
2, Number 4 |
November
1989 |
66 Pages |
Page
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8 The Richmond Arsenal worked wonders to arm a fledgling nation. Page
10 Northern minstrel Daniel Emmett, ironically, wrote Dixie. Page
12 The 1st Minnesota made its stand at Gettysburg. Page
18 The townsfolk of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, laughed when Confederate General John McCausland arrived to take revenge for Union depredations in Virginia. They didn't laugh long. Page
26 For the thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers waiting in the frigid woods around Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the last day of 1862 would also be the last days of their lives. Page
34 While Union commander George McClellan fumed and the outcome of the Battle of Antietam hung in the balance, a handful of Confederate sharpshooters held off 15,000 Federal troops at "Burnside Bridge." Page
42 For the fugitive slaves and their abolitionist helpers, the Underground Railroad was truly the "freedom train" and they were "bound for glory." Page
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58 Beauvoir was Jefferson Davis' sanctuary.
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