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66 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
4, Number 2 |
July
1991 |
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66 Pages |
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8 "Crazy Bet" Van Lew was Grant's Richmond spy. Page
12 Kentucky's famous Orphan Brigade carved out an unparalleled war record. Page
14 The South's runaway economy was one of the North's most effective "weapons." Page
18 Bombastic General John Pope tempted fate by returning to the old battleground at Manassas. He thought he had caught Robert E. Lee napping-he was wrong. Page
26 For over two years, timid generalship frustrated Union plans to seize strategically vital Cumberland Gap. Had they moved more quickly, the war might have been significantly shortened. Page
34 Unlike their chivalry-conscious Confederate counterparts, quarreling Northern generals preferred to fight their feuds with pen instead of sword-with one tragic exception. Page
42 John Brown's fanatical scheme to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and ignite a slave revolt in the South lit, instead, the powder keg of civil war. Page
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58 German Unionists found little "Comfort" in Texas.
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