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96 Pages |
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North &
South |
Volume
1, Number 5 |
1998 |
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96 Pages |
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6 Letters to the Editor Page
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16 The author argues that the excessively wooded and hilly terrain of North America and the nature of Civil War armies caused battles to fought in the way they were. Page
22 A rebuttal of Paddy Griffith's beliefs is here presented. McWhiney and Jamieson believe that the rifled musket was the driving force behind tactical innovations during the Civil War. Page
31 Book Reviews Page
32 Late in the day on July 2, 1863, the Confederate division of Jubal Early assaulted East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg. Opposing his troops on the Union side were XI Corps units under Oliver Otis Howard, and to a lesser extent, men from Winfield Scott Hancock's II Corps. Page
46 The prisoner parole system in the Civil War was unique. Author Mel Young describes the ways in which captured POWs were exchanged, including groups of privates for officers. The system in some cases depended on the honor of those involved not to take arms against the opposing side until they were properly exchanged. Page
48 Camp Ford, a prisoner of war camp in East Texas, is profiled. The Camp had originated as a training camp in 1862, but soon became the largest Confederate POW camp in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Page
56 Stephen Sears discusses the relationship between V Corps commander Gouverneur Warren and Army of the Shenandoah / Cavalry Corps commander Phil Sheridan. At Five Forks, on April 1, 1865, Sheridan relieved Warren of command at the conclusion of a successful battle that all but assured the fall of Petersburg, Virginia. The author contends that Sheridan was wrong to relieve Warren, calling the result a "grave injustice". Page
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