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66 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
3, Number 1 |
May
1990 |
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66 Pages |
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8 Intrepid aeronauts were the armies' "spies in the skies." Page
10 The 100th Pennsylvania "Roundheads" lived up to their Cromwellian name. Page
12 Gallant Sam Davis refused to save himself by betraying others. Page
18 Robert E. Lee ordered ill-fated George Pickett to hold Five Forks "at all hazards." But Union General Phil Sheridan was planning to "go to smashing." Page
26 An impatient Ulysses S. Grant considered the Battle Above the Clouds to be "all poetry." But it was battle enough for the soldiers who fought atop. Page
34 With Stonewall Jackson wounded and the Confederate lines badly jumbled, the Battle of Chancellorsville was "Fighting Joe" Hooker's to win-if he could. Page
42 Politician-General Nathaniel Banks' grand design to capture Shreveport left Admiral David Porter's Union gunboats high and dry. Page
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58 Twain and Stowe were Hartford, Connecticut, neighbors.
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