America's
Civil War |
Volume
4, Number 4 |
November
1991 |
74 Pages |
Page
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8 Union sailors called torpedoes the Confederacy's "infernal machines." Page
10 Colorado's forgotten Confederates did their best for the Southern cause. Page
16 J.S. Staples represented Abraham Lincoln in the Union Army during the war. Page
22 A small hill in southern Mississippi became the focus of intense fighting during the Vicksburg Campaign. Champion's Hill, said a survivor, was "literally the hill of death." Page
30 Two old West Point classmates paid their respects to one another at Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock. The meeting would be more than a mere social occasion, however. Page
40 Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson worked together surprisingly well, given the remarkable number of differences in their backgrounds and personalities. Perhaps it was something in the stars. Page
46 Interested Southerners hoped the diplomatic crisis caused by an overzealous Union naval captain would boil over into full-scale hostilities between Great Britain and the United States. Page
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64 The South won its last battle of the war at Natural Bridge.
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