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Longstreet: Culprit or Scapegoat?
by Glenn Tucker
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Did Lee order Longstreet to attack at dawn
on July 2 at Gettysburg? Did Longstreet drag his feet because he
disapproved? Was Longstreet's idea for a defensive battle in
Pennsylvania good military judgement? Was he justified in arguing
for it with Lee? Was a flanking movement to the right
feasible? What is Longstreet's proper rating among the
Confederate generals? One of the most outstanding modern students
of the Civil War answers these long-debated questions with
often-overlooked facts and in so doing defends Longstreet against
decades of innuendo and abuse.
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South Carolina Prepared
for War in 1851 by Ashley Halsey Jr.
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Ten years before the attack on Fort
Sumter, South Carolina authorities began stockpiling heavy artillery,
including a quantity of 10-inch mortars better suited for battering
forts than for coastal defense. Citing recently found documents,
a distinguished editor and Civil War authority tells how.
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A Century Ago
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April 1862: Shiloh, Island No. 10,
Yorktown, New Orleans, Ft. Pulaski
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Letters & Diaries:
George W. Buhrer by E. E. Billings
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Sergeant George W. Buhrer
Company E, 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry
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| Famous Fighting Units:
The Crazy Delawares by
Emerson Wilson |
2nd Delaware Infantry Regiment
Colonel William P. Bailey
Lt. Col. David L. Stricker
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To Capture a Great
Historic Moment by Frederic Ray
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That was Francis B. Carpenter's motive in
painting his "The Emancipation Proclamation." His method was to
combine allegory with painstaking accuracy.
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How to Estimate A
Unit's Frontage by W. S. Nye
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Nye discusses how to
determine the width a unit will take up in line or in column.
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Modern Techniques
Turn Brady Photographs into a Revealing Portrait of Richmond
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A Courier & Ives print
depicting "The Fall of Richmond" is compared side by side to a modern
day (1960's) photograph.
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Weapons
& Equipment by Dr. Frasncis A. Lord
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The
Army and Marine Corps used a wide variety of 'equipments.'
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Last
Battle of the War by Henry I. Kurtz
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The
Blue and the Gray fought at Palmetto Ranch a month after
Appomattox. The battle was fought on May 12, 1865 in Texas.
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Book Reviews
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1.
Stanton: The Life and
Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War by Benjamin P. Thomas and
Harold M. Hyman
2. Wendell Phillips--Brahmin Radical
by Irving H. Bartlett
3. True Tales of the South at War:
How Soldiers Fought and Families Lived 1861-1865 edited by
Clarence Poe
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Prussian Observer
Left Excellent Record of War
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Captain Justus Scheibert
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The
Amazing Ordeal of Pvt. Joe Shewmon, Part I by Joe Shewmon
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Here
in his own words is the first installment of an 18-year-old Ohio
soldier's exciting story of how he twice escaped Confederate prisons
and was recaptured after living off the Southern countryside.
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Jake
Donelson, a 'Cocky' Rebel by W. S. Nye
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The
comrades of this unusual Confederate never minded his crowing. In
fact, it endeared him to them.
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