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74 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
3, Number 5 |
January
1991 |
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74 Pages |
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8 The rifle-musket bridges the gap between flintlocks and repeaters. Page
10 Satanic-looking John R. Baylor was as dangerous as his appearance. Page
16 The 95th Illinois braved three years of danger to do its duty. Page
22 A small Methodist meeting house in southwestern Tennessee lent its name to a "must-win" battle in the spring of 1862. No one expected such a horrific bloodbath. Page
30 The Five civilized Tribes of Indian Territory found themselves drawn unwillingly into the white man's Civil War. The Indians, too, would pay a fearsome price. Page
38 The Civil War seemed a million miles away from tidy, well-kept Frederick, Maryland. But one morning the town woke up to find an unwelcome guest on its doorsteps. Page
46 Southern blockade runners plied a romantic but dangerous trade in the midnight waters from Nova Scotia to the Bahamas. A watery epitaph awaited the unlucky or unwary. Page
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62 Newport, Rhode Island, was the Naval Academy's wartime home.
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