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74 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
4, Number 3 |
September
1991 |
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74 Pages |
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8 Aged Union and Confederate veterans vied to the last to see who would live the longest. Page
10 Medical treatment, or the lack of it, disabled more soldiers than enemy fire. Page
16 The 30th Maine, although not well-known, played its own part in American history. Page
22 Union spy James Andrews and his handpicked crew led Southern railroaders on a wild chase through the Georgia countryside aboard the "borrowed" engine General. Page
30 Colonel Robert Shaw and the gallant 54th Massachusetts won lasting glory with their attack on Fort Wagner, but failed to win the battle for the North. Page
40 Jesse McNeill's Rangers spirited away two high-ranking Union generals from their hotel beds. Said one captive, "Gentlemen, this is the most brilliant exploit of the war." Page
46 Strategic Corinth and its railroad lines were a key target for Confederate armies hoping to march north in support of General Braxton Bragg's invasion of Kentucky. Page
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62 At Richmond's Museum and White House of the Confederacy, time stands still.
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