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66 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
2, Number 5 |
January
1990 |
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66 Pages |
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8 Southern partisan Elijah White led his much-feared "Comanches" in Northern Virginia. Page
10 Company L, 35th Tennessee, served the South with honor and dignity. Page
12 Sharps rifles were deadly in the hands of Berdan's Sharpshooters.
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18 Even as news of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox reached their camp, vengeful Union cavalry rode out to teach Southern civilians a final lesson in the brutality of "total war." Page
26 The fate of Missouri hung in the balance when Union and Confederate troops clashed in the late-winter snow and mud at Pea Ridge, just across the Arkansas border. Page
34 William T. Sherman was tired of flanking maneuvers. At summer-scorched Kennesaw Mountain, near Atlanta, he decided to vary his tactics. Battle-wise Confederates waited in their trenches for the audacious frontal attack. Page
42 Despite their great distance from the major battlefields of the Civil War, eager Californians volunteers flocked to defend the Union against pro-Southern elements within their state. Page
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58 At Fort Stevens, the war reached Washington, D.C.
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