America's
Civil War |
Volume
2, Number 6 |
March
1990 |
66 Pages |
Page
6 Page
8 Dashing General "Autie" Custer went home to Michigan to find a wife. Page
10 Hood's Texas Brigade won a fearsome reputation for hard fighting. Page
12 The dreaded bayonet was mainly a psychological weapon. Page
18 Ulysses S. Grant thought his formidable Union army could take Vicksburg by direct assault. Renewed Southern spirit, and suspect Northern generalship, would prove him wrong. Page
26 Union Flag Officer Andrew Foote steamed his ironclad armada directly toward Fort Donelson's frowning guns. It would be, as he thought, an unequal fight. Page
34 With the enemy stirring ominously on the Virginia peninsula, Robert E. Lee turned to his "old war horse", James Longstreet, for help. Page
42 Amid the tangled cypress swamps and thick pine forests of northern Florida, a thrown-together force of Confederates made a stand against Union invaders. Page
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58 History-conscious Mobile has much to lure visitors.
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