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74 Pages |
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America's
Civil War |
Volume
4, Number 6 |
March
1992 |
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74 Pages |
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8 The North looked to private companies, American and foreign, for much-needed handguns. Page
10 The University Greys left the campus of Ole Miss for Virginia's battlefields. Page
14 Arthur MacArthur, the 24th Wisconsin's "Boy Colonel," started a family tradition of generalship. Page
22 Pennsylvania's hard-bitten coal miners had no intention of trading one perilous profession for another. Union enlistment officers soon had full-scale rebellion on their hands. Page
30 Robert E. Lee put his worn-out army into winter quarters behind the icy Rappahannock, confident the enemy would leave him alone until spring. But Abraham Lincoln had other plans. Page
40 A Confederate defender at Port Hudson, bastion of the lower Mississippi, boasted that the Southern position was "a place hard to get at." Union Admiral David Farragut agreed, but that didn't stop him from trying. Page
46 Skeptical residents of St. Louis took one look at John c. Fremont's Europeanized "Bodyguard," and marked it down as a unit that wouldn't fight. At Springfield, the Bodyguard had something to prove. Page
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62 Forts Stevens and Canby guarded the distant Pacific Coast from Rebel attack.
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