Civil War Magazines-1990's

 
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America's Civil War
January
1990
War's Last Cavalry Raid (Even as news of Robert E. Lee's surrencer at Appomattox reached their camp, vengeful Union vacalry rode out to teach Southern civilians a final lesson in the brutality of "total war".), Battle For Missouri (The fate of Missouri hung in the balance when Union and Confederate troops clashed in the late-winter snow and mud at the Pea Ridge, just across the Arkansas border.), Heedless Frontal Assault (William T. Sherman was tired of flanking maneuvers. At summer-scorched Kennesay Mountain, near Atlanta, he decided to vary his tactics. Battle-wise Confederates waited in their trenches for the audacious frontal attack.), The Union's Bear Flag Defenders (Despite their great distance from the major battlefields of the Civil War, eager California volunteers flocked to defend the Union against pro-Southern elements within their state.)
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Blue & Gray
February
1990
The General's Tour - The Battle of Ball's Bluff: October 21, 1861, Controversy - Deflowering a Myth: Rose O'Neal Greenhow and the Battle of First Manassas, Reflections - In Lasting Tribute: The U.S. Army and Gettysburg Since 1863, Common SOldier - The Life and Times of James A. Wheeler, A Tennessee Confederate, Back Roads - Defending California, Driving Tour - The Battlefield of Ball's Bluff, A Camp Talk Extra - Johnny Clem Vindicated
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Civil War Times Illustrated
February
1990
Ulysses S. Grant: A Special Issue: Chapter 1: His Life and Hard Times (His early military career and leaving it), Chapter 2: An Unhappy Civiliam (An unsuccessful businessman is saved by the outbreak of war), Chapter 3: A Kind of Northern Hero (Early success which turns his superiors against him), Chapter 4: Leading The Juggernaut (His Vicksburg campaign changes the face of war), Chapter 5: Commander Of All Union Armies (His promotion to Lieutenant General places him alongside George Washington), Chapter 6: The Gracious Victor (He bests Robert E. Lee and brings the war to a close), Chapter 7: Difficult Last Days (Two-term President who died under a cloud of scandal)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
April
1990
Features - Home Of The American Arch Villain (John Wilkes Booth, popular actor and 19th-Century enigma, President Abraham Lincoln's killer. His family home in the Maryland countryside, still a private residence, is a Civil War era legacy to modern America): Bennett Place: Humble Shrine To Peace (As every school boy knows, Lee surrendered at Appomattox. But where did General Joe Johnson negotiate the surrender of his men to Union Major General Sherman? In North Carolina, they know it as the Bennett Place and the state government there has preserved it for you and posterity); Bury Them If They Won't Move (Another CWTI book exclusive. A story of the 1864 "Battle Of The Crater" outside Petersburg, Virginia, from author Wilkinson's new work on men at war, told from the perspective of the common soldier); In A Most Disgraceful Moment (No one remembers the 22d Virginia. And there is a reason why. Shame); Death At A Distance (A heavy rifle with a telescopic sight mounted on it enabled a single soldier to take the war to the enemy, often from as far away as a mile); A Conversation With The Past (Rebel Major General Simon B. Buckner of Kentucky lived on into the 20th Century. Author Criswell reports a talk the old soldier had with a stranger in 1904, one that revealed his true feelings about U.S. Grant) Departments - Behind The Lines; Letters To The Editor; 125 Years Ago; In Print; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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America's Civil War
May
1990
Hold at All Hazards (Robert E. Lee ordered ill-fated George Pickett to hold Five Forks, "at all hazards". But Union General Phil Sheridan was planning to "go to smashing".), Battle Above The Clouds (An impatient Ulysses S. Grant considered the Battle Above the Clouds to be "all poetry". But it was battle enough for the soldiers who fought atop.), So Perfect a Slaughter (With Stonewall Jackson wounded and the Confederate lines badly jumbled, the Battle of Chancellorsville was "Fighting Joe" Hooker's to win - if he could.), Gunboats Up The River (Politician-General Nathaniel Bank's grand design to capture Shreveport left Admiral David Porter's Union gunboats high and dry.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
June
1990
Features - History Moves The Mail (From the United States to Europe to the islands of Micronesia, the Civil War is a favorite subject of postage stamp art. Collect a postal history of the war, and find yourself caught up in a rewarding international treasure hunt); On To Prison (A Massachusetts foot soldier visits Richmond, Virginia, the hard way. His is a tale of prison woes in the Confederate capital's Belle Isle stockade); The Battle Of Brandy Station (The Union cavalry had a score to settle. The Confederate cavalry had a secret to protect. When these determined foes clashed at Brandy Station, the whole world took notice. Now, new historical discoveries reveal the full dimensions of the legendary 14-hour fight); He Would Steal? (Yes, he would. That is why President Abraham Lincoln had to snatch the Union's war fund from the pilfering hands of Pennsylvanian Simon Cameron); Give The Blacks Texas (Cut Confederate Texas in half to segerate American blacks in a new Union territory? Ridiculous. But in 1863, the United States Senate gave official consideration to establishing this strange "Territory of the Rio Grande."); Homage To A Unique Rebel (Nearly forgotten, black Confederate soldier Henry Brown finally gets his due in a South Carolina ceremony) Departments - Behind The Lines; Coming Events; 125 Years Ago; In Print; Letters To The Editor; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
August
1990
The General's Tour - The Sultana Disaster: Conspiracy of Greed, Camp Talk Extra - Chicago Round Table Turns 50, Battle - With Shouts of Triumph and Trumpets Blowing: George Custer versus Rufus Barringer at Namozine Church on April 3 1865, Primer - Civil War Naval Vessels, Reflections - Tennessee Remembers Her Boys in Blue
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Civil War Times
August
1990
Special Issue: The Story of the War's Final Days - Prologue: Peace Nears, Chapter 1: "Success Was Eminently a Happy, A Glorious One", Chapter 2: "The Whole Country Seemed To Be Alive with Demons", Chapter 3: "God's Will Be Done", Chapter 4: "The Last Gun Had Been Fired", Chapter 5: "It Was a Terrible Calamity", Epilogue: America Looks to the Future
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Blue & Gray
October
1990
The General's Tour - Brandy Station: The Civil War's Bloodiest Arena of Mounted Combat (On June 9, 1863 Union horsemen under the overall command of Alfred Pleasonton managed to surprise Jeb Stuart's cavalrymen in their camps near the town of Brandy Station on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. It was a very close call for the Southern cavalier as he struggled to save his command and his reputation. While Pleasonton played no significant role in the actual attacks, subordinates such as John Buford and David Gregg proved themselves worthy combatants, instilling a newfound confidence in the much maligned Eastern horsemen in blue.), Controversy - The Truth About Wise's Well: Setting the Record Straight on South Mountain (...how did 58 dead Rebels really end up in Daniel Wise's well in Fox's Gap.), Audio/Video Reviews - From Glory to Echoes of the Blue & Gray (...how the movie you saw differs from the original script, and actually Civil War veterans walking and talking on film.), Reflections - Will the Real "Mudwall" Jackson Please Stand Up? (...is he Alfred Eugene, or John King, or William Lowther...or who?), Guest Editorial - Preserving Brandy Station (...the battle's not over yet.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
Sept. / Oct.
1990
Features - The Reliable Remington (Soldiers trusted the Remington New Model Army revolver for its sturdiness and performance. Collectors value it as one of the Civil War's most-used handguns); G.A.R. Museum Is A Treasury of War Relics (A museum founded by Union veterns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, still opens its doors to visitors who want to step back in time); A Tourist At Gettysburg (Smoke is in the air and wounded still lie in crude hospitals when a disabled Union veteran visits the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); The Century Art: What War Looked Like (Some of the best images of the Civil War were made for The Century Magazine 20 years after the last shot was fired); Inside Mosby's Confederacy (Northern Virginia's "Gray Ghost" narrowly avoids capture in this excerpt from the newest book on Confederate Partisan Ranger John S. Mosby and his raiders); Strike The Phrase "Strike The Tent" (Medical research has the last word on the last words on Confederate General Robert E. Lee's famous "last words"); Big War On A Small Screen (A PBS Civil War history series comes to television this fall); Hard Rope's Civil War (A secret mission ends abruptly when Indians ask too many questions) Departments - Behind The Lines; Letters To The Editor; In Print; Coming Events; 130 Years Ago; Time Lapse
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Civil War Times Illustraated
Nov / Dec
1990
Features - The Petersburg "Folly Gun" (Built to fire 121 bullets at a time. Built to destroy enemy lines. Built to be a super weapon. It sits at Petersburg, Virginia, a monument to oddity); Our Heftiest Relics (Some people get very interested in the Civil War and start collecting antique uniform buttons, soldiers' swords and knives and military maps and papers. But cannon? What would compel someone to buy a working Civil War-era cannon?); Six Guns Against The Fleet (Dick Dowling's men are all that stand between an invading Union army and defenseless Texas civilians. They can save themselves or stay and fight. Their decision will make them the Confederacy's most honored soldiers); Where Do You Stand Horace Greeley? (He favors peace. He favors war. He favors peace, again. This biography asks, what does New York Tribune publisher Horace Greely want for his country and why is President Abraham Lincoln angry at him?); Writing Home To Talladega (An Alabama officer's letters to his darling tell us something about love, literature and death in the Civil War); Desperate Courage (At Fredericksburg, Virginia in December 1862, the Union army's Irish Brigade charges up a hill and into oblivion. Its men are eulogized, called the nation's bravest soldiers. But Irish-Americans, unmoved, ask bitter questions) Departments - Letters To The Editor; In Print; 130 Years Ago; Coming Events; Behind The Lines; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
December
1990
The General's Tour - The St. Albans Raid: Rebels in Vermont! October 19, 1864: Preservation Bulletin - Brandy on the Brink of Demise!, Gettysburg - If Peaches Could Talk..., Reflectiond - Lincoln's First Gettysburg Address: A Little Known Impromptu Speech Perhaps Best Forgotten, Audio / Video Reviews - Van Heflin's Raid to Ken Burn's Classic
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Civil War Times Illustrated
Jan / Feb
1991
Features - Going Back Into The Union At Last (The Gettysburg Campaign through the eyes of a Louisiana Tiger is detailed in this letter to a wounded brother); Atlanta's Restored Cyclorama (After years of neglect and abuse, Atlanta's painting-in-the-round has been restored to its original glory. Today, it is the centerpiece of a Civil War history center in the city's Grant Park); Harvard's Civil War Lizard (The world-famous Harvard Museum is home to the strangest souvenir of the 1862 Seven Day's Campaign); Lincoln's Victory Tour (Abraham Lincoln captured the attention of the nation as he proceeded on a victory tour following the fall of the Confederacy. Liberated African-Americans and elated Union supporters showered him with admiration, unaware of the mourning that would soon grip the country. This journey would be Lincoln's last); The Vice-President Resides In Georgia (An advocate of peace negotiations, Confederate Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens found himself at odds with the government he served. Longing for state's rights, but fearful of the South's ruin by Union troops, Stephens avoided Richmond's political turmoil and sought the solace of his Georgia home); Charge Of The Tarheel Brigades (The Union Army's toughest veteran's are swept aside by a few units of brave young men from the Tarheel State. Robert E. Lee says, "God bless North Carolina); A Problem Of Rank (Is it honorary? Is it temporary? Is it social? What does the often misdefined "brevet" rank really mean?) Departments - Behind The Lines; Letters To The Editor; In Print; 130 Years Ago; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
February
1991
The General's Tour - Savannah: Mr. Lincoln's Christmas Present (Leaving much of Atlanta in flames behind him, Major General William T. Sherman and 60,000 hard-bitten Yankees embarked on a fiery trek across Georgia to the sea. It was November, 1864. With no base of supplies, living off the land and "foraging liberally" from the civilian population, Sherman's army could ill afford to be stalled for any period of time. They had to keep moving to stay alive. Savannah was his target, and waiting for him there was Lieutenant General William J. Hardee with a mixed and meager force of veterans, mmilitia, and even some turncoat Yankees. Another David and Goliath match-up appeared in the offing. And what of the fate of the beautiful old city of Savannah? Many held their breath...); Unsolved Mysteries - The Shelton Laurel Massacre: Murder in the North Carolina Mountains (A Confederate hero of Gettysburg linked to mass murder? Did it plague his mind as he led his division down Chambersburg Pike on July 1, 1863? Only Henry Heth knew for sure...); Controversy - The Great Imposters (They were the last veterans of the great War between the States. They marched to parades as the highest honored of old soldiers. And most of them were imposters, pathetically living out the lies they'd created for a few pension dollars...); Audio/Video Reviews - Jefferson Davis' Greatest Mistake (Greg Briggs lets you know what's new on the audio/video market, from a recent video-lecture on the leadership qualities of Joe Johnston, to an old-time radio format on the battle of Gettysburg...) Regulars - Response; Book Reviews; Camp Talk; Blue & Gray Sutler
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Civil War Times Illustrated
March / April
1991
Features - Praying For Southern Victory (A young bride with an infant daughter is left alone on her husband's Manassas, Virginia homestead. While waiting to hear from her man, serving in the Confederate army, Union troops arrive and prepare to fight the first battle of the Civil War on her property. Through her words, we find out what it took for a woman to endure this crisis); Lincoln's Lost Telegram (A collector rediscovers a telegram sent by the President of the United States from Maryland where he was preparing to "fire" his chief general); A Poetic Plea From Prison (Beyond Key West. Florida, where the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean meet, sits Fort Jefferson - the Union army equivalent of "Devil's Island" There, during the Civil War, Federal soldiers convicted of commiting heinous crimes were sent to rot in tropical heat. One inmate is still remembered because of the unique way he begged for release); The Battle Of Rock Creek (A Union arsenal sacked in Missouri. The governor calling for sucession and the mayor of Kansas City calling for U.S. troops. Everyone wonders where the state's first battle of the Civil War will be fought. Will it be Rock Creek?); An "Historic" TV Double Feature? (Did the commander of the Confederate Ironclad Virginia have a romance with a Union spy before he fought the enemy ship Monitor? Did Abraham Lincoln befriend a small boy whose brother was a wounded Confederate officer at Gettysburg? Naah. But TV producers are betting we would like to imagine it when they premier films on two different networks this spring); How To Pick Out Bad Officers (In a war where the Federal government was eager to attract leaders of men, it discovered it had made some bad choices. How did it get rid of incompetent officers? It gave them a test. Could you pass it?) Departments - Behind The Lines; Letters To The Editor; Coming Events; In Print; 130 Years Ago; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
April
1991
The General's Tour - Season of Change: The Winter Encampment of the Army of the Potomac, December 1, 1863-May 4, 1864, West Of The Mississippi Idaho Shoot-Out, Reflections The Civil War's First Monument: Bartow's Marker at Manassas, Back Roads On the Road to Gettysburg: Cashtown Inn, Audio/Video Review The Civil War is on a Roll
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America's Civil War
May
1991
Ict Assault Routed (As Confederate fortunes plummeted like the temperature in winter-racked East Tennessee, James Longstreet sent his hungry troops forward for a last-ditch assault against Union-held Fort Sanders.), Unprovoked Tragicomedy in St. Louis (Despite its comic-opera elements, the affair at Camp Jackson, Mo., was not really funny. Innocent men, women and children were involved.), Whirling Through Winchester (Ulysses S. Grant sent feisty Phil Sheridan to wrest control of the fertile Shenandoah Valley from the Confederates. At Winchester, "Little Phil" begtan the job in earnest.), Raiders of the Artic Seas (The Civil War was grinding to a halt, but the feared Confederate Raider Shenandoah still carried on a one-vessel war of her own on the high seas.)
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Civil War Chronicles
Summer
1991
"The Great Arrogance of the Present to Forget the Intelligence of the Past" (The maker of the great documentary on the Civil War tells how the medium of film evokes the emotional reality of history.), The Fires of Norfolk (At war's outbreak a frightened commander was ready to give away the Union's greatest navy yard.), Lee's Greatest Victory (At Chancellorsville. But the cost was too steep.), Then and Now: The Big Gun (One of the most powerful weapons in the service of the South.), The Rock of Chickamauga (Lee, Grant, Jackson, Sherman, Thomas. Yes, George Henry Thomas belongs in that company.The trouble is, he and Grant never really got along.), Lincoln From Life *Previously unknown: the first portrait of Lincoln ever painted.), The Big Parade (Serious postwar tensions within the Union army disappeared in one happy stroke that gave the United States its grandest pagent.)
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America's Civil War
July
1991
Return to the Killing Ground (Bombastic General John Pope tempted fate by returning to the old battleground at Manassas. He thought he had caught Robert E. Lee napping - he was wrong.), Contesting Cumberland Gap (For over two years, timid generalship frustrated Union plans to seize strategically vital Cumberland Gap. Had they moved more quickly, the war might have been significantly shortened.), Brawling Yankee Brass (Unlike their chivalry-conscious Confederate counterparts, quarreling Northern generals preferred to fight their feuds with pen instead of sword - with one tragic exception.), Meteor of the War (John Brown's fanatical scheme to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and ignite a slave revolt in the South lit, instead, the powder keg of civil war.)
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Civil War Times
July/August
1991
Special Biography Edition: The Life of Jefferson Davis: "We Will Vindicate the Right": An Account of the Life of Jefferson Davis, Chapter 1: "We Will Vindicate The Right", Chapter 2: The First and Only Confederate President, Chapter 3: His Nation's Commander in Chief, Chapter 4: The Great Philosophical Collision, Chapter 5: King Jeff the First, Chapter 6: The Will to Win and Denying Reality, Chapter 7: A Reason to Loathe Davis
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America's Civil War
September
1991
Audacious Railroad Chase (Union spy James Andrews and his handpicked crew led Southern railroaders on a wild chase through the Georgia countryside aboard the "borrowed" engine General), Carnival of Death (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), Confederates' Brilliant Exploit (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">), Attack Written Deep and Crimson (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)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
Sept/Oct
1991
Features - Following The Paper Trail (A check written by actor and presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. It is just another collectible or a clue to an historical mystery?); Los Angeles' Drum Barracks (The Junior Officer's quarters is the only surviving structure of California's Civil War era Drum Barracks. Today, despite abandonment by the U.S. Army and years of neglect, the quarters houses an attractive museum and stands as a legacy of the state's Civil War past); Training In Treason (The Georgia Military Institute. Governor Joseph Brown and others praised it as an institution of higher learning. But when the Civil War came along, Federals looked on it as a place where young men were trained for treason); I Have A Great Contempt For History (Major General George Meade, gentleman, scholar, distinguished U.S. Army officer. He won the largest battle of the Civil War. Then his career stagnated and critics used him as a whipping boy. Why?); Oh, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones (Did U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suffer from an exotic condition called Marfan's Syndrome, an illness that would have killed him if an assassin hadn't? To find out more, scientists are studying his bone cells); I Shall Be A Prisoner (In 1862, when Federal Major General George McClellan announced amputees and critically injured men had to be abandoned to the enemy, Dr. Page was forced to confront his conscience); A Soldier's Sketchbook (Julian Scott, a decorated Union soldier and talented painter, left a powerful visual record of what troops endured in battle and on campaign. Writer Titterton analysizes the strength and we share some images with you) Departments - Letters To The Editor; In Print; Coming Events; Behind The Lines; 130 Years Ago; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
October
1991
The General's Tour - 13 Haunted Places of the Civil War, II: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Read About The Civil War Again...Introduction - Spirits of the Parks, Number 1 - McRaven of Mississippi, Number 2 - The Phantom Army of Harper's Ferry, Number 3 - A Presence at Perryville, Number 4 - Fall Hill Specters, Number 5 - Carnton at Franklin, Number 6 - The Kind Ladies of Old Camp Chase, Number 7 - Stones River Slaughter Pen, Number 8 - The Haunting of Cashtown Inn, Number 9 - Jesse James' Farm. Number 10 - Savannah Ghosts, Number 11 - The Chickamauga Curse: "River of Death", Number 12 - Spirits of Drum Barracks, Number 13 - Gettysburg Exorcism or Buried Alive
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Civil War Chronicles
Winter
1991
The Industrial Bulwark of the Confederaccy (In 1861 the South needed desperately to build a war machine fast. The job fell mainly on one man and his factory.), The First News Blackout (The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war's end. the hard-won compromises between soldiers and newspapermen may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.), Search and Destroy (The government so thoroughly confiscated these Civil War-era photos that they didn't resurface for more than a century.), Investigation: 1862 (Suspected of treason but not convicted, the Union general Charles P. Stone went to prison.), The Booth Obsession (The author joins the thousands who feel compelled to trace the flight of Lincoln's assassin.), The First Kansas Colored (They were the first black men to fight in the Civil War. They were the first to serve alongside whites. And they were the first to die.)
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America's Civil War
November
1991
Literal Hill of Death (A small hill in Southern Mississippik became the focus of intense fighting during the Vicksburg Campaign. Champion's Hill, said a survivor, was "literally a hill of death".), Melee on Saint Patrick's Day (Two old West Point classmates paid their respects to one another at Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock. The meeting would be more that a mere social occasion. however.), Stars in Their Courses (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.), High Seas Brouhaha (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.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
Nov./Dec.
1991
Features - A $2500 Set Of Trading Cards (In the 19th Century an American cigarette maker recognized the marketing value of Civil War heroes. The result: a set of trading cards that can give modern collectors a nice surprise); How To Capture A General (A good story should be told often. Even if you've heard it before, you'll like this retelling of the tale of how Rebel "Gray Ghost" John Mosby kidnapped a sleeping Union general); Break Out (Feisty young Confiderate artilleryman "Wash" Traweek achieves the impossible. He tunnels his way out of the Elmira, New York prisoner-of-war camp and heads out for home...in Alabama); Lincoln's Murder: The Simple Conspiracy Theory (Why we have been led to believe John Wilkes Booth alone came up with the scheme to kill President Abraham Lincoln); The Bloody Fifth (A COnfederate regiment make up of 'Texas' toughest fighting men, the 5th Infantry got the attention of the Union army in 1862 when it eliminated a Federal regiment within 10 minutes); Maffit: "Magician" Of The Blockade (John Maffit commanded the ffeared Southern privateer Florida. But he made himself world famous as a master smuggler, slipping in and out of blockaded Confederate ports. What was his secret?); An Unpleasant Relic (How serious were Pro- and anti-slavery men in the years before the Civil War? A photograph of a branded hand gives a clue) Departments - Behind The Lines; In Print; Letters To The Editor; Coming Events; 130 Years Ago; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
December
1991
The General's Tour - (Much to Sadden and Little to Cheer: The Civil War Years at West Point); An Album Of Civil War Era Cadets And Professors; Roster Of West Point Graduates 1861-1865; Profile - Robert E. Beckham: The Man Who Commanded Stuart's Horse Artillery after Pelham Fell; Audio / Video Reviews - Song of the Sixties are Hot! Regulars - Response; Book Reviews; Camp Talk; Blue & Gray Sutler
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America's Civil War
January
1992
Black Thursday for Rebels (Robert E. Lee's gallant but exhausted troops struggled through marshy bottom land in their flight from Petersburg. The entire Union Army was slashing at their heels), Cloak & Dagger Fiasco (Lurid rumors of assassination filled the air as President-elect Abraham Lincoln made his way toward Washington for his inauguration. In pro-Southern Baltimore, security was espically tight.), Mantled in Fire And Smoke (In one hour of desperte fighting on the rocky ledges of Little Round Top, the Battle of Gettysburg = and perhaps the fate of the entire Union - reached its decisive climax.), Confused First Fight (While Union columns descended on him from all directions in western Virginia, an optimistic young Confederate colonel waited at Phiippi for reinforcements that would never arrive.)
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Civil War

The Magazine of the Civil War Society
Jan/Feb
1992
The Vengeful War of William C. Quantrill (Early in the War, Quantrill was the most feared man in Kansas. But was he a murderer, or a maligned and brilliant guerilla who just happened to take few prisoners?), "The Most Horrible Barbarism' (Killing heat and rampant disease made the days hellish in Andersonville Prison, but the nights help pure terror as cold-hearted thievfes and thugs preyed on the sick and dying.), Formula For Disaster (Three of the Confederacy's least successful generals came together at the wrong place at the wrong time. Would the South ever recover from the bungling and cowardice of Fort Donelson's commanders?), The Winning Entry in the 1991 Civil War Essay Contest (Father Thomas O'Reilly: A Savior of Atlanta. A future historian makes his debut with a superb profile of an obscure Southern hero.), Civil War Magazine's First Annual Endangered Battlefields List (Here are the six places where you can make the most immediate and important difference in the struggle to save a significant Civil War Battlefield.), Dispatch Box, "I Was There", The Civil War Almanack, The Reviewing Stand, Lest We Forget
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Civil War Times Illustrated
Jan/Feb
1992
At Home With The General (The Great Locomotive Chase of 1862), The Painter and the President (Artist Francis Carpenter's work on Lincoln), "A Might Mean - Fowt Fight" (The Battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri - the first fight out west), "Tired Soldiers Don't Go Very Fast (A first-person remembrance of the Battle of ANtietam that rebutts the dcommonly accepted story of the fight for Burnside Bridge), The Gray Reunion (A reunion in 1911 in Little Rock)
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America's Civil War
March
1992
Coalfields' Perfect Hell (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), Daring Night Assault (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), Decks Covered With Blood (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), Taking Off the Kid Gloves (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)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
March-April
1992
Features - One Marine's Brief Battle (A young man from Vermont, the son of a family with influence in Washington, he could have done anything during the Civil War. But Robert Hitchock wanted to be a U.S. Marine officer. He got his way and became a footnote in American history), The Cost Of Capture (Can you understand what Union or Confederate prisoners-of-war went through during their incarceration? Visit the Andersonville stockade in Georgia and discover what it took to endure there), Boots And Saddles: Part One - The Eastern Theater (This is a history of the cavalary, the most colorful branch of the Northern and Southern armies. Many people familiar with pictures of cavalrymen in plumed hats, wiekding Civil-War-era swords and revolvers, know little about what it took to arm, supply and train these soldiers. Here they'll find some of that information), Historians Honor Herois Horse (A Connecticut town names a street after an equine hero of the Confederacy. But which one and why?), Where Did Seminary Ridge Go? (An investigative reporter goes to work for CWTI and uncovers how and why the U.S. Park Service and Department of the Interior agreed to a land sway deal with Gettysburg College, one that cost Americans several acres of historic real estate on the Gettysburg battlefield. It's a sad story of politics, ineptitude, a law suit and bulldozers), "All Goes On Like A Miracle" )Robert E. Lee was baffled. Ulysses S. Grant and an entire Union army had disappeared from the front and Lee had no idea where they were going. Studied by generations of professional soldiers, this is the story of Grant's great strategic coup, secretly moving the Army of the Potomac across the James River and confounding his opponent) Departments - Letters To The Editor, Behind The Lines, Time Lapse, 130 Years Ago, In Print, Coming Events
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Blue & Gray
April
1992
The General's Tour - The Battle of Five Forks: Final Push For the South Side, Yankee Captain Daniel Ellis: The Old Red Fox of East Tennessee, Lee's Last U.S. Army Post
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America's Civil War
May
1992
Very Jaws of Capture (The blockade-running Gladiator was carefully prepared for a swift trip into Southern ports, but sharp-eyed Union agents sealed the way), Darbytown Road Debacle (Robert E. Lee's Virginia veterans moved out one frosty morning to recapture Fort Harrison. It would be Lee's last offensive north of the James River), Southern Belles at War (From secession to surrender - and years of suffering in-between - Southern women stood foursquare behind their menfolk in their bid for self-determination), Brilliant Cavalry Exploit (Music teacher turned cavalryman Benjamin Grierson led Confederate horsemen on a 600-mile chase through Mississippi's swamp-riven bottom lands)
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Civil War Times
May/June
1992
A Shrine in The West (California, which did not like Lincoln, is now the home of the largest memorial to him west of the Mississippi), The French Lady (Zarvona, a Confederate soldier who disguised himself as a woman and led a band of hijackers), For Better or For Worse (Spending her honeymoon as a refugee), News of The Day (Newspaper stories and advertisements of the period), The Fighting Minority (The story of the many groups of minorities that fought in the Civil War), Robert Anderson: Reluctant Hero (The Southern-born commander of Fort Sumter), Boots and Saddles Part Two: The Western Theater (Forrest and Morgan, Grierson and Wilson)
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Blue & Gray
June
1992
The General's Tour - Stonewall Jackson: Molding the Man and Making a General, Common Soldier - Two Corporals: A Tale of Nathan Bedford Forrest's Attack at Sulphur Branch Trestle, Alabama Naval History - A Long War and a Sickly Season: Yellow Fever and the East Gulf Blockading Squadron
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America's Civil War
July
1992
Kentucky Neutrality Threatened ("I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game" said Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, there was plenty of reason to believe that the president's home state would secede from the Union), Carnage In A Cornfield (As the Battle of Antietam commenced on the morning of September 17, 1862, David R. Miller's 30-acre cornfield separated the lines of blue and gray. By midday, the field would be red from a grisly harvest), Pell-Mell Cavalry Clash ("We don't fear Stuart's whold cavalry," boasted Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick. But on October 19, 1863, it would have been better for him and his troopers if they had been a prudent degree more fearful.), War's Last Battle (Eager to experience battle before the Civil War ended, Colonel Theodore H. Barrett interpreted the willingness of "Rip" Ford's Texans to surrender to mean that they had no stomach for a fight. He was sorely mistaken)
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Blue & Gray
August
1992
A Special Issue The Second Battle of Manassas Lee Suppresses the "Miscreant: Pope
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America's Civil War
September
1992
Federal's Risky Pursuit (Union General Cadwallader Washburn was unhappy with his latest assignment:" Follow Forrest to the death". Many of his predecessors had done just that.), Return to Fredericksburg (Five months after their overwhelming defeat at Fredericksburg, Union forces once again prepared to charge up Marye's Heights.This time, they intended to reverse the score.), Yankees in Gray (Many reasons, professional and personal, impessed native-born Northerners to join the Confederate Army. Thirty became generals, and most served valorously.), City For The Taking (The vital port of Savannah prepared to meet the blueclad onslaught of William Tecumseh Sherman and his hard-marching "bummers". Time, however, was running short.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
September/October
1992
Features - Miracle Of The Rails (Federals trapped in Chattahooga, cut off from supplies, stuck because Rebels shuttled west by rail had thrashed them. Their leaders ask, can Union railroads resolve the crisis?); In The Pulpit And In The Trenches (The men loved Chaplain Milton Haney. On more than one occasion, he picked up a rifle to fight beside his uniformed flock. And that he survived the Battle of Atlanta impressed everyone as nothing less than the work of God); Exclusive Book Excerpt From This Terrible Sound (Sample Peter Cozzens' exciting new battle history about the fight called Chicamauga: a story about the desperate struggle for Horseshoe Ridge. Hardened Confederate soldiers and tough Union veterans wrestle over a hill famous in Civil War history); The Great Raid On Calais (A daring attempt at a daylight bank robbery in far off Maine brings out the militia and raises the alarm: Confederates are crossing the Canadian border); Hill's Favorite Courier (You've heard of Grant and Lee, Sherman and "Stonewall" Jackson - men who shaped and witnessed the Civil War's great events. But have you heard of George 'Tucker'? He may have seen more history in the making than any other common soldier); For The President's Consideration (Republican chief William Seward believed President-elect Lincoln was a lightweight, unfit for office. He sent him a note offering help. It was a note that nearly cost Seward his position); A History Lover's Photo Contest; News Of The Day (In this issue: news by Pony Express: Presidential offspring Robert Lincoln joins the army: Hawaii takes a stand on the war) Departments - Letters To The Editor; In Print; 130 Years Ago; Behind The Lines; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
October
1992
Anniversary Message to Blue & Gray Readers, The General's Tour - The Deception of Braxton Bragg: The Tullahoma Campaign of June 23-July 4, 1863, A Camp Talk Extra (Holloywood Focuses on the Civil War), The Steadiest Body of Men I Ever Saw: John T Wilder and the Lightning Brigade, Jeb Stuart and his Reluctant Cavalryman: Gunner Tom Rosser is Forced to "Jine the Cavalry", The Art of Redifer (Interpretations of Lincoln)
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Civil War Chronicles
Winter
1992
The War That Never Goes Away (More than the Revolution, more than the Constitutional Convention, the Civil War was the crucial test of the American nation. The author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a definitive book on the subject, explains why the issues that fired the Civil War are as urgent in 1992 as they were in 1861.), The Children of Gettysburg (The storm broke over their small town and changed their lives forever.), The New Sherman Letters (Extraordinary correspondence, recently revealed, takes us inside the mind of a military genius. Here is William Tecumseh Sherman in the heat of action, inventing modern warfare, grieving the death of his little boy, struggling to hold Kentucky with levies, rolling invincibly across Georgia, and - always - battling the newspapermen whose stories, he believes, are killing his soldiers.), Hell and the Survivor (A Union soldier had a better statistical chance of living through the Battle of Gettysburg than of surviving the prisoner-of-war camp called Andersonville. But Charles Hopkins did it and left this horrifying record.), The Terrible Price of Freedom (The bloodiest day's fighting in our nation's history took place on ground that has hardly changed since 1862. Antietam today offers a unique chance to grasp what a great Civil War battle was actually like.)
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Civil War Times
November/
December
1992
Features - News of The Day (In stories taken from the newspapers of the 1860's, we learn: before the Civil War's first great battles, the public is shocked when pro-Southern protesters riot in St. Louis; astrology and roller-skating are the hot fads of the war years; there is word of military movemen;), Wading In The High Tide Of Kentucky (Ambling over Kentucky's Perryville battlefield, you can decide for yourself: was this the spot where the Confederates lost the war? Historian Mark Grimsley takes you there and shows you one of America's unique state-run battlefield parks); Prisoner Of Circumstance (Read the letters of imprisoned Union sailor Andrew Hopkins and his wife Virginia and learn a little about what capture could do to a fighting man's family); Preview Decision In The West. The Unusual Combat History (An exclusive look at respected writer and historian Albert Castel's new book of Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, one that puts you on the field of combat. In this issue: the Battle of Resaca); Holiday In New York (After the 1863 New York draft riots, battle-hadrdened Yankee troops kept the peace in the country's largest, toughest and most magnetic city. But what looked to be a hardship assignment for the Union soldiers turned into something that could have been mistaken for a vacation); The Greatest Scoundrel (When Jake Thompson served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, government funds turned up missing. When he served as the Confederacy's representative in Canada, Rebel money disappeared. Unemployed and living in France after the Civil War, he made a luxurious Paris hotel his home. Did Jake steal?); Bonus Book Excerpt Mapping The Civil War (We look at colorful and intriguing political and military campaign maps used in the Civil War, work rediscovered in the archives and libraries of the capital and now reproduced in a fascinating book for readers who've always been interested in the lay of the land) Departments - Behind The Lines; Letters To The Editor; In Print; 130 Years Ago; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
December
1992
The General's Tour - Monocacy: The Battle That Saved Washington, My Friend, The Enemy: The Tale of an Illinois Lieutenant, Wade Hampton's Chaplain, and the Burning of Columbia, Audio-Video Reviews, Three Roads to Andersonville, Lincoln's Gratitude Regained, Battle of Monocacy Preservation Message
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Blue & Gray
February
1993
The General's Tour - The Campaign and Battle of Mill Spring, The Cavalry Clash at Quebec Schoolhouse: Cobb's Legion, CSA, and Medill's Union Horsemen Fight In The Shadow of South Mountain, Maryland, September 13, 1862, Back Roads - A Visit With Uncle Remus: Joel Chandler Harris Museum, Eatonton, Georgia, Controversy - Reflecting on Gettysburg: Or, Rethinking the Nig One, Preservation - Conditional Surrender: The Death of U.S. Grant and the Cottage on Mount McGregor
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America's Civil War
March
1993
Doubly Missed Opportunity (On either side of the Rapidan River, Union and Confederate armies in the fall of 1863 seemed hesitant and overly cautious of each other. Perhaps - with good cause - they were fought-out. Gettysburg was only a few months in the past), Tragedian's Greatest Role (Abraham Lincoln - like thousands of other Northern playgoers - would have recognized his assassin at a glance. John Wilkes Booth was one of the most famous actors in America. His last role was also his deepest tragedy), Bold, But Not Too Bold (At Big Bethel, Union Brig. Gen Ebenezer Pierce watched as skirmishers covered the 3rd New York's withdrawal against advancing enemy infantry - and suddenly realized that they were actually exchanging shots with other Union troops), Forrest's First Fight (Mollie Moorehead was eager to tell Lt. Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest that the Yankees had occupied Sacramento, Ky. It was all Forrest could do to dissuade her from riding into battle with him).
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Civil War Times
March/April
1993
More on a Night at the Theater (New-found eyewitness accounts provide a reevaluation of the Lincoln murder), We Cleared Their Way (A Union artillerist gives his account of the Second Battle of Manassas), I Shall Make Him Remember This Insult (Confederate Major General W.H.T. Walker), In Harm's Way (What civilians endured during the Battle of Antietam), Jeff Davis' Last Ride (When his resting place was changed from one place to another), You Have Done Me a Great Injustice (Fort Sanders) $5.00 1

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April
1993
The General's Tour - Strike Them a Blow: Lee and Grant at the North Anna River, Preservation Message - North Anna River: The Past Reclaimed, The Track is Clear to Shohola: Disaster On the Road to Elmira, The Battle of Britton's Lane: The Climax of Armstrong's Raid, Driving Tour - The North Anna Campaign
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America's Civil War
May
1993
Death Takes No Holiday (Arkansas Confederates planned their own Fourth of July celebration at the port of Helena-this time at the Union's expense. Was it bad luck to attack on Independence Day?), Battle Fought on Paper (Union Generals Winfield Scott Hancock and John Gibbon waged a bitter battle on paper long after the fighting had stopped the the Wilderness. Each man blamed the other for the Northern setback there), Capital Folly (Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard put his fertile imagination to work devising a master plan to capture Washington. Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, however, were skeptical), The Great Debate (Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas expected little danger from his homespun opponent in his 1858 re-election campaign. But Abraham Lincoln proved to be a more formidable candidate than anyone could have known.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
May/June
1993
Moral Victory in the Crusade to Clear Mudd (Modern day trial for Dr. Samuel Mudd), Jef Davis' Living Tomb (His cell at the Fort Monroe Casemate Museum), "I'll Live Yet To Dance On That Foot" (Colonel Charles Blacknail continues to fight despite numerous wounds), The Beast of New Orleans (Benjamin Butler), Custer's Long Summer (At the end of the war his men turn to mutiny), Gunboats Of The Upper Tennessee (The Union needs a Gunboat to move south from Chattanooga)
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Blue & Gray
June
1993
The General's Tour - Grierson's Raid, April 17-May 2, 1863 A Cavalry Raid at it's Best, Driving Tour - Following Grierson Today, The Sword and the Cross of Giles B. Cooke: A Christian Soldier with Lee and Jackson, Audio/Video Reviews - The Horse SOldiers
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Civil War
July/August
1993
Features: The War at Sea - Fantastic Voyage: The Long Raid of the C.S.S. Shenandoah (Beginning and ending with grand deceptions in London, England, the Confederate raider bedeviled the navies of the world.), Raise the Monitor! Can we? Should we? (The first designed ironclad, the Monitor made history in Hamptons Road in March, 1862. Now, from her grave off the Outer Banks, she challenges historic preservationists.), "Damn the Torpedoes!" The Battle of Mobile Bay (Admirals Farragut and Buchanan duel to the death in Alabama's famous haven for blockade runners.), Matthew Fontaine Maury: From Pathfinder to Minelayer (Fot teh U.S. Navy, Matthey Fontaine Maury charted the seas and discovered the Gluf Stream. His contribution to the Confederate cause was more explosive.) Plus: - The Making of Gettysburg: Report from the Set (How do you turn one of the best Civil War novels ever written into a movie for television? Very carefully.), : Inside the Conservation Fund (Third in a series of reports on who's who in Civil War preservation.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
September/October
1993
Features - Fort Pillow (It's a serious historical site, not a soft stop on a tour. The reputed massacre here made it the war's most controversial engagement. What remains at the scene for visitors to see?); Grover Cleveland and the Rebel Banners (Twenty years after the war President Cleveland, thinking the tensions of the conflict had eased, offered to return captured battle flags to their home states. He found out the hard way that sectional feeling and martial pride did not die easily); Special Book Excerpt: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (A new book may change the way we look at the Civil War through paintings); Seminary Ridge to Remain Unrestored The Federal courts have given the cold shoulder to Gettysburg historians' efforts to recover a bulldozed section of the battlefield's Seminary Ridge. The next step is the court of public opinion; battlefield preservationists plan a book about the controversy); To Be Held At All Hazards (Winfield Scott Hancock was without question one of the Union army's ablest administrators. At the battle of Antietam, he was revealed as one of the greatest fighters, as well. Had he been given free rein, the Union might have won the Civil War then and there); Who Are Exempt (Late in 1862, the impending draft caused anger and confusion throughout the North. Sensing his readers' dismay, a newspaper editor tried to clear things up with this article); A Forgotten Account Of Chickamauga (Confederate Colonel William F. Perry's first-hand account of the fight was recently rediscoverd among a historian's pages. 130 years after Union and Confederate armies clashed in the Georgia woods, Civil War Times Illustrated sets the record straight); Millionaire Rebel Raider: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest (The fierce Southern general inspired fear in the hearts of enemies and allies alike. In the first of a three-part series, author Grimsley chronicles Forrest's pre-war life and his early service in the Confederacy) Departments - Letters To The Editor; Behind The Lines; In Print; 130 Years Ago; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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America's Civil War
November
1993
A Mighty Mean-Fowt Fight (Fiery little Nathaniel Lyon refused to compromise with Missouri seccionists. At Wilson's Creek, he paid the full price for his intransigence), Daring Rear-Guard Defense (While the rest of the Army of Tennessee reeled away from Missionary Ridge in panicky defeat, Irish-born Patrick Cleburne and his crack division rallied around their famous blue-and-white battle flag), Wolf At The Door (Georgia Govenor Joseph E. Brown led an eleventh-hour attempt to make peace with William Tecumseh Sherman and his invading hordes. Was it statism, patriotism - or treason?), Roadblock En Route To Washington (With Confederate General Jubal Early racing unchecked down the Shenandoah Valley toward Washington, only a disgraced young general and his raging force stood between Rebels and the nation's capital)
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Civil War Times
November/
December
1993
While Father Was With Us (Memories of an Indiana soldier whose Father visited the front), The Great Deceiver: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest (Part II), Gettysburgh: A Battle Becomes a Movie, Libbie's Table (The table George Custer had that Grant had signed the surrender on - or had he), Special Book Excerpt: General James Longstreet, Betwixt Wind and Water (The story of the 'massacre' above Memphis in the fight for Fort Pillow), We Will Stand By You (General Forrest and his actions towards Blacks), Georgia's Endangere3d Gunboats (Will the Confederate Naval Museum have to close), "Til the Paper Work is Done" (The Civil War was the first war with paperwork)
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Blue & Gray
December
1993
Special Issue - Nashville - The General's Tour - The Battle of Nashville: The Desperation of the Hour, Area Map - Middle Tennessee, Tour / Battle Map - Battle of Nashville, Order of Battle - Hood's Army (CSA), Order of Battle - Thomas' Forces (USA), That Cruel Hole in his Brow - The Death of Col. William Shy, Civil War Sites in Nashville Camp Talk Extra - More Trouble at Brandy Station, 'Killer Angels' Comes to Cashtown - Scenes from the making of Gettyxburg.
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America's Civil War
January
1994
Pounding Port Hudson (The siege of Port Hudson, LA, was principally an artillery duel, pitting Union guns like "Whistling Dick" and "Bounding Ben" against the Confederates' "Great Cotton Bale Battery" and "Old Demoralizer".), Firing The Gap (Major General Lafayette McLaws' role in support of Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson's investment of Harper's Ferry was to occupy Maryland Heights. Even as he did, however, Union Maj. Gen. William B. Franklin came knocking at his back door - Crampton's Gap.), First ladies at War (Although vilified in 1862 for making "extravagent purchases for herself," the first lady spent so much time in hospitals that Union Soldiers named one ward "Camp Mary Lincoln" in her honor.), Escape From Libby (As the Union prisoner chiseled away at the underground passageway pieces of dirt fell on him from above. Through the small hole, he could see daylight - and two Confederate sentinals.), Commands (Beginning with the Battle of Lee's Mill, the Vermont Brigade paid the highest of prices for its patriotism.), Personality (Was the male Confederate guerrilla Marcellus Jerome Clarke also the female marauder knows as Sue Mundy?), Ordinance (The arms-starved Confederacy searched high and low in its bid to equip its fledgling soldiers.), Book Review (First to fight, Minnesota's gallant volunteers gave "the last full measure" of their devotion to the Union.), Travel (Mississippi's strategic Ship Island was a much-prized target for both sides during the Civil War.)
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ivil War Times Illustrated
January / February
1994
Features - McClellan's Plantation (Virginia's picturesque Berkeley Plantation was already one of America's most historic places when the Union Army of the Potomac decided to bed down there for a few weeks in 1862); In A Nutshell (Lots of soldiers and civilians sent letters home describing the way. But with home more than 5,000 miles away, an immigrant farmer had a lot of background to cover); The James Boys Go To War (The Civil War gave birth to a united nation in North America. It also spawned some of the meanest men history has known: Frank and Jesse James and their fellow "bushwackers"); Leader Of The Klan: The Life Of Nathan Bedford Forrest (Used to victory and at home on the battlefield, Forrest is forced to cope with the Confederacy's lean years and the postwar Reconstruction in the third and final installment of CWTI's profile of the war's greatest horse soldier); A Civilian At Brice's Crossroads (Even the elusive Bedford Forrest found himself in a stand-up battle now and again. A Mississippi farmer describes the aftermath); Irreconcilable Differences (Developers want to build a huge auto racetrack near Brandy Station, Virginia, at the site of the Western Hemisphere's greatest cavalry battle. Preservationist groups are racing to stop them - and quarreling among themselves over how to do it); A Bloody Half-Hour (A few mud walls and a small Rebel garrison at Secessionville, South Carolina, stood between two Union brigades and the cradle of the Confederacy. It was no contest); A Scratch With The Rebels (To Civil War officers, losing a battle like Secessionville meant more than just organizing a retreat and tallying the casualties. It also meant writing some unpleasant letters) Departments - Letters To The Editor; In Print; 130 Years Ago; Behind The Lines; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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Civil War Times Illustrated
March/April
1994
Features - Guardians Of Mobile Bay (The Civil War forts that guarded Alabama against the Union navy still stood as sentinels at the mouth of Mobile Bay, weathered, but largely unchanged); A Midnight Ride (The Union leadership had to warn its newest commander of the enemy's concentration near a small Pennsylvania village: Gettysburg. But the general couldn't be reached by telegraph. The responsibility for hand-delivering the message fell on a young telegrapher named Fonda); A Single Step ("Stonewall" Jackson's footsteps across Virginia's Shenandoah Valley shook an entire nation. But the first stride of his "army of the living God" was an almost unnoticed, completely unexpected battle in the mountains near McDowell, Virginia); CWTI Book Preview: A Woman Of Valor (It wasn't easy for a woman to become a heroine during our nation's first century. The few who managed it have been cast in marble by history. CWTI's excerpt of the new book about Clara Barton by one of America's greatest biographers reveals the heroic nurse not as a statue, but as a living, breathing, loving human being); Remote History (Dig the channel changer out from betwen the cushions - cable television is taking a crack at Civil War history. Can the nation's biggest war survive on the small screen); Wheat's Tigers (When the original Louisiana Tigers went north to Virginia, their colorful Zouave garb made them stand out. Their rowdy behavior and battlefield bravery soon made them notorious); To Honor The Dead: Last Taps At La Glorieta Pass (What do you do when Confederate soldiers turn up unexpectedly more than a century after their deaths? After years of controversy, New Mexico found a solution); To Honor The Dead: A Proper Burial In Charleston (When a Charleston, South Carolina, women suspected Confederate graves had been paved over to make a football stadium parking lot, her course of action was clear: launch a crusade to find out the truth, and make sure the dead are laid to rest) Departments - Behind The Lines; 130 Years Ago; In Print; Letters To The Editor; Time Lapse; Coming Events
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Civil War Times Illustrated
May / June
1994
Features - Navy Life On The Mississippi (A young navy recruit was sent to the Great River for training and the adventure of his life. His memoir of fightint aboard the I.S.S. Cincinnati explains something of war in Arkansas and recounts a battle now almost forgotten); The City Of Brotherly Hospitality (A tale of Civil War-era charity in the city of Brotherly Love: Philidalphia;s citizens and businessmen pooled their time and money to help tired and hungry soldiers far from home); Charge Bayonets (One day the flashy 5th New York Infantry - a zouave regiment known for excellence on the parade ground - found that it was all that stood betewen the Union army and disaster. At the Battle of Gaines' Mill, the men of the 5th proved they were more than showpieces; they were soldiers who knew the ugly business of using the bayonet, soldiers who knew how to act like heroes); Samaritan Or Charlatan? (The government took back Dr. Mary Walker's Medal of Honor. Did this Civil War surgeon lose the honor because she was less than deserving, or because she was a social gadfly? A distinguished historian sifts through facts and legends, looking for an answer); Southern Girls With Guns (No men of fighting age were left in LaGrange, Georgia. The women of the town picked up muskets and drilled for years, saying they were prepared to defend their homes. Then came the showdown with a Yankee army); Was Lincoln The Great Emancipator? (Long ago, black Americans thought of Abraham Lincoln as the kindly President who freed the slaves. Today, many say kindness had nothing to do with it - that it was merely a cold, calculated political move. One commentator takes up the debate); Knoxville's Civil War History Survives (General Longstreet slept here. Or was it here? A guide to touring the hidden Civil War-era homes and forts in Knoxville, Tennessee) Departments - Behind The Lines; Letters To The Editor; 130 Years Ago; In Print; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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Civil War Times Illustrated
December
1994
Features - Frozen In Time (An Alabama ghost town and a fort that shares its name live on outside Mobile); Four Shots For The Cause (A Rebel lieutenant relives the retreat from Gettysburg and battles in Virginia); The Dilemma Of Commodore Craven (U.S.S. Niagara survived the war thanks to her prudent commander, but would he survive his battle with the Seccretary of the Navy?); The War's Most Dangerous Relics (Artillery shells can teach us much about the war - if they are handled with care); An Army Of His Own (Joe Brown's Georgia had to have its own army, even if it hurt the Southern war effort); Crossed Wires (Telegraph troubles bring Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the brink of ruin); Gateway To The Atlantic (Fort McAllister's defenders were all that stood between Union Major General William T. Sherman and the sea. They were not about to budge); They Came To Watch (When America went to war with itself, the European powers took ringside seats); The Plain Truth Was Too Plain (Everyone loved Supreme Court Justice Lurton's story of how he was released from a Union prison through his mother's pleas to President Lincoln. If only it were true); Napoleon Bonaparte: The Other Burford (Gettysburg hero John Burford's half-brother marched to the beat of a different drum. His commanders wished he would just follow orders) Departments - Behind The Lines; 130 Years Ago; Letters To The Editor; In Print; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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Civil War Times Illustrated
January / February
1995
Features - Conversation In Confidence (Stinging from his removal from command, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston confided in an old friend about his Atlanta defense and his succor's strategy); Living On A Civil War Battlefield (When the author decided to build and farm on part of Virginia's Cross Keys battlefield, he had to come to terms with the land's hallowed past); A Landscape That Gave Shape To History (The location of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, made it a natural focal point for industry, transporation, and war. Today, it is a rewarding destination for historical travel); Out Of The Shadows (Robert C. Tyler's life - even his identity - has always eluded historians. Now, new clues reveal previously unknown details about the South's most mysterious General); A Superhighway For Civil War Information (A research center at Louisiana State University undertakes the towering job of creating a comprehensive database of Civil War related materials); Burnside's Geography Class (For the Union IX Corps, the war was a whirlwind tour of seven states, but it was no pleasure outing. Hard fighting, hard marching, and hard times were the rule); The Maple Leaf Escape (The Rebel Yell rang out on the Chesapeake Bay, announcing the start of a daring escape. But could 71 fugitives cross Union-held territory without being caught); The Great Locomotive Wreck (The Erie Railroad was a huge and usually efficient machine. But when a delayed train and a negligent employee entered the mix, disaster was inevitable. It came at Shohola, Pennsylvania, and Union and Confederate soldiers paid the price) Departments - Behind The Lines; 130 Years Ago; In Print; Letters To The Editor; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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Blue & Gray
February
1995
The General's Tour - Gettysburg Vignettes: Three Mini-Tours of Sites on the Gettysburg Battlefield Related to the Fighting on July 1, 1863 that are Unmarked or Seldom Visited: #1-Fight Like the Devil to Hold Your Own. General John Buford's Cavalry at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 #2-That One Error Fills Him With Faults. Gen. Alfred Iverson and His Brigade at Gettysburg, #3-At The Time Impracticable. Dick Ewell's Decision on the First Day at Gettysburg. With Excerpts from Campbell Brown's Journal., The Trials and Tribulations of Fountain Branch Carter and His Franklin Tennessee Home, On The Back Roads - The Final Resting Place of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Camp Talk Extra - The Next Big Preservation Battle Will Be Truth
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America's Civil War
March
1995
Jo Shelby and His Shadow (When Confederate forces surrendering in the spring of 1865, Brig. Gen. Joseph O. Shelby and his friend, Major Hohn. N. Edwards, came up with one last plan to keep the Cause alive-establish a new Southern republic in Mexico), Great Escape from a Rebel Prison ("Our life was monotonous in the extreme" wrote Union Private Robert Burke of his captivity at Camp FOrd, Texas. "Naturally a person confined to such quarters would let his thoughts dwell much of the time on liberty."), Brief Breach at Fredericksburg (Out of ammunition, Brig. Gen. James Lane's North Carolinians fell back before the men of Brig. Gen. John Gibbon's 2nd Division-through not before two soldiers of the 16th Maine were speared by bayonet-tipped rifles thrown at them by retreating Rebels,), Resort of the Fead (On June 18, 1864, the Raleigh Daily Confederate anounced the conversion of the Kittrell's Springs Hotel into a hospital: "This popular place of summer resort is now open for the reception of our sick and wounded soldiers.")
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Blue & Gray
April
1995
The General's Tour - No Turning Back - Part I The Battle of the Wilderness: The Fighting on May 5, 1864, Twenty-Seven Kinds of Drunk (A sampling of Drunken Tales from Union Court Martial records), Mr. Grant Goes to Washington, Driving Tour of the Wilderness Campaign (The fighting on May 5, 1864)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
April
1995
History Comes Home (Appomattox Court House is a quiet historical reminder), Philo Markham's Long Walk (A New York State farmer makes a spur-of-the-moment decision), Battle In Desperation (Lee tries a risky predawn assault in an effort to escape Petersburg), Sherman's Feuding Generals (General Sherman keeps his Generals battling the enemy instead of each other long enough to conquer Atlanta), Faithful Friends (Dogs and other pets of soldiers), A Rolling Momento (The railroad car built for Lincoln becomes a must-have for a collector), Conduct Unbecoming (Having McGruder defend himself on the eve of an important campaign)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
June
1995
Personal Reminiscences of "Stonewall" Jackson (General Taliaferro fondly recalls Jackson after the war), Historians Oppoase Opening of Booth Grave (Trying to open Booth's grave to see if his is the body in there), Mutiny At The Front (German "Turners" refuse to go into battle in 1863 saying the Federal government should keep it's promises), Stuart's Revenge (Taking revenge for the capture of his plumed hat), Rebel Pirates And California Gold (Trying to seize Yankee gold), Traces Of A Distant War (Traces of the Civil War in San Francisco), Stolen Soldiers (Thousands of Canadians coming in to fight, some as volunteers others coerced or kidnapped by "crimps")
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Civil War Times Illustrated
August
1995
Features - Completely Outgeneraled (Cross was one of the North's fightingest colonels - on and off the field of battle. He aimed his wrath at Union Major General Joe Hooker in his account of the 1863 Chancellorsville Campaign); New Orleans' Haven For History (Dedicated historians have kept the flame alive for more than a century in New Orleans' neglected Warehouse District. Now development is brightening the neighborhood, and visitors are rediscovering Civil War heritage at the Confederate Museum); A Fight For Missouri (Missourians were deeply divided at the war's beginning. When the difference of opinion became an open battle at Athens, neighbors and relatives found themselves on opposite sides of the shooting); Reluctant Raider (When the feared C.S.S. Alabama and Florida were joined by a third commerce raider, the Georgia, the future of Union shipping looked grim. But did the Georgia and her polite skipper have what it took to do real damage to Northern commerce?); Code-Crackers (When Civil War military leaders needed to communicate quickly and privately, they turned to the telegraph and secret codes. When their enemies wanted to know what they were up to, they turned to wiretapping and a secret weapon: the code-crackers); A Traitor In The Senate (Early in the war, suspicious Unionists trusted no one in the Northern capital - especially not a freshman senator from Oregon with a reputation for sympathy with the South); "A Hell On Earth" (Civil War soldiers thought nothing could be worse than life on the firing line, until they became prisoners of war. St. Louis's Gratiot Street Prison made captured Rebels long for the battlefield) Departments - Behind The Lines; News; Letters To The Editor; In Print; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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America's Civil War
September
1995
Personality (British-born Paul Francois de Gournay was one of the Confederate officers behind the deadly guns of Port Hudson.), Ordnance ("No gun is so well suited in all respects to the wants of cavalry", said Rebel Brig. Gen. Basil Duke of mountain howitzers.), Commands (The 14th Kentucky Cavalry fought no major battles, but skirmished in the mountains of its native state.), Reviews (For six months, two bumbling commanders dueled over the fate of Kentucky.), Travel (A bloody routh that took General Ulysses S. Grant almost a year to travel can now be covered in four days.), Ironclad Assault at Trent's Reach (Once he had cleared the obstructions from its path, Confederate commander John K. Mitchell hoped that his James River Squadron could move on to devastate the Union supply depot at City Point, VA. But the tide had turned against him - literally.), Limbs Made and Unmade by War (During the Civil War, the production of prosthetic limbs for thousands of amputees became, as physician and author Oliver Wendall Holmes put it, a great and active branch of homegrown American industry.), Wrecking on the Railroad (In January 1864, while Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Rebel guerrillas harried his supply lines, Mag. Gen. William T. Sherman launched a campaign to destroy Mississippi's logistic lifelines.), Meagher of the Sword (Described in his yourh as "truculent, noisy, brash, verbose and belligerent", Thomas E. Meagher turned those unflattering traits into assets as commander of the Union army's famed Irish Brigade.)
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Blue & Gray
Fall
1995
The General's Tour - Forgotten Valor: Off The Beaten Path at Antietam, Tour Map: Antietam Monument Locator Map, Col. Fletcher Webster's Last Letter: I Shall Not Spare Myself, The Strange Case of Lieutenant Colley, 10th Maine Infantry, Replanting History: The Reforstation of the West Woods
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Civil War Times Illustrated
October
1995
Features - Shadows Of Civil War In Baltimore (Southern sympathy was widespread but well hidden in this Union-occupied Maryland city. Today Baltimore's Civil War heritage is similarly hidden. But persistence and imagination can reveal much of interest); Letters From The Heart (Letters between an inprisoned Virginia officer and his fiancee reveal the pain of lives interrupted by war, and the hope that made seperation bearable); Lincoln's Secret Arms Race (What archaeologists pulled from the ground at Cold Springs, New York, was fascinating. What it revealed about Abraham Lincoln was astonishing); Civil War In Cyberspace (The good news is that computers can give you instant access to a great volume and variety of Civil War material. The better news is that using the technology is easier than you thought); Burning Down The South (Northern soldiers destroyed a vast amoung of Southern property during the war, but they didn't do it for spite. Author Mark Grimsley explodews some myths in this exclusive excerpt from his new book, The Hard Hand Of War);, Battle For The Rio Grande (A Rebel general hatched a grand plan to win the West and forged an army of frontiersmen to make it come true. At Valverde, where its path crossed the Rio Grande, the new army faced its first test) Departments - Behind The Lines; News; Letters To The Editor; In Print; Coming Events; Time Lapse
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America's Civil War
November
1995
First Blood in Baltimore (The 86th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington), The Gray Fox of Dixie ("Dixie" Dickison and his cavalry company that occupied the land west of the St. John's River), Fighting with Forrest in the Tennessee Winter (The attempt made by Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forret to save the army of Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood after the Battle of Nashville), How the War Changed America's Newspapers (As the Civil War progressed, the thirst for news became insatiable among soldier and civilians alike-even though the price of a daily paper had gone up to as much as 4 or 5 cents a copy by 1865)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
December
1995
Special Issue - Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Legacy (He is the central figure in American history. His face is on our currency. And yet he remains one of our least understood presidents. In this issue, the best Lincoln authors reveal something of the man behind the myth); His First Love (No one can hope to understand Lincoln without acknowledging his greatest passion: politics. The author reintroduces Lincoln as a man who lived his whole adult life in the public eye); The Man At The White House Window (Lincoln said he was fighting the Civil War to "save the Union." His opponents swore his true aim was to abolish slavery. His real motives lay deeper, in an abiding vision of America's destiny); Tried By War (What could a prairie lawyer know about fighting a war? Very little at first, but Lincoln learned quickly and well. His greatest battle was to find a general who saw the war as he did); The Happiest Day Of His Life (Spring of 1865 was a season of triumph for Lincoln, until a single bullet took his life. New research sheds light on his assassins motives - and on official Confederate plans to eliminate Lincoln) Other Special Features - The President At Play (Tales of Abe Lincoln's physical strength and skill in sports abound. Are they true?); "I Should Not Say ANy Foolish Things" (Surprisingly, once he became president, Lincoln the legendary orator spoke publicly as rarely as possible. When he did speak, he often embarrassed himself); A Man Of Sorrows (Lincoln suffered bouts of depression during his White House years. What was the source of his profound sadness?); Collecting Lincoln (Artifacts relating to our 16th President are varied and fascinating. Finding them can be its own reward); Potraits Of The President (A special photo essay traces Lincoln's public life through unretouched portrait photographs) Departments - Special Reader's Guide (The 10 Best Books About Lincoln. Our authors give us their top selections); Travel (The Lively Pageantry Of Death - Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was shot, and the Petersen House where he died have become shrines to the hellish events of April 14 and 15, 1863 (1865)); Behind The Lines; Letters; Calendar
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Civil War Times Illustrated
February
1996
Cover Story - A Town Embattled (When war came to Winchester, Virginia, it came to stay. Gateway to the Irish Shenandoah Valley, the town changed hands by force too many times to count...and three pitched battles bore its name. The stain the war placed on the townsfolk prompted a prominent visitor to remark, "The men are all in the army and the women are the devil!:); New Orleans' Finest (Flair, courage under fire, and faithful service won the Washington Artillery a special place in the hearts of their Confederate countrymen, and military honors in two theaters of the war); Grierson's Raid (The mission was to cut a railroad and raise a little havoc - just enough to divert attention from Grant's army in the spring of 1863. No one expected Grierson's cavalry to slice a smoking trail through the entire state of Mississippi) Departments - My War - A Sharpshooter's Seven Days (An aging Vermont veteran looks back on his days as Colonel Hiram Berdan's 1st U.S. Sharpshooters and tells stories of combat and survival on the Virginia Peninsula. This is the first of two parts); Travel - The General At Home (At Arlington House, Robert E. Lee's family home on the Virginia side of the Potomac, you can still find traces of the general's lesser-known domestic side); Behind The Lines; Letters; Reviews; News; Calendar; Gallery
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Civil War Times Illustrated
April
1996
Cover Story - The Proving Ground (In the 1840s, when future Civil War generals were still young men, many got their first taste of combat in the Mexican War. Their experience in battle with names like Monterey, Vera Cruz and Churubusco would guide them as they fought one another on American soil nearly two decades later); The Tormenting Flame (Fire and brimstone flowed from Ambrose Bierce's pen when he wrote about his Civil War days. But the war experiences that made him a great American writer were a cancer that tormented him for the rest of his life); A Moving Picture (Fifty years after Pickett's Charge, actors restaged the Battle of Gettysburg in the California hills. The resulting film impressed moviegoers - especially Civil War veterans. Rare stills from the lost film offer a glimpse of what captivated viewers in 1913); Sneak Attack At Lone Jack (Federal calvarymen's breakfast had to wait when Confederates four times their number swept into a tiny Missouri town. The Yankee troopers were in for the fight of their lives) Departments - Travel (Andersonville Remembers America's POWs: The prison camp that Union soldiers considered hell on earth is today a neatly manufactured national park commemorating the sacrifices of all American prisoners of war); My War ("Blood and Feathered" At Malvern Hill - On the last day of the Seven Days Campaign, a Union sharpshooter falls victim to a well-aimed Rebel rifle, but lives to tell the tale. The second of two parts); Behind The Lines; Letters; Reviews; News; Calendar; Gallery
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Blue & Gray
Summer
1996
The General's Tour - Uncommon Valor: Hood's Texas Brigade in the Maryland Campaign, Lost Victories: Johnston and Sherman at Cassville, Camp Talk Extra - Preservation: Superhighway Threatens Moorfield, Corrick's Ford, Driving Tour - Hood's Texas Brigade in the Maryland Campaign
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Civil War Times Illustrated
May
1996
Cover Story - Smoketown Hospital (After the Battle of Antietam, hundreds of wounded men fought for their lives in tent hospitals set up on the battlefield. Rare photographs, published here for the first time, provide a window into one such facility, Smoketown Hospital. Words from a surgeon seen in the photos bring the pictures to life); Blind Justice (Despite his young age, Ephraim Dodd was a veteran of battles in Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The star on his sombrero identified him as a Texas Ranger. To a Union army court, however he was just a spy and spies had to be hung); Joe Johnston's Last Charge (Only a military miracle could stop the Unio war machine in March, 1865. It was up to General Joseph E. Johnston and a war-weary Rebel army to provide one. Johnston and his proud troops would show their mettle at Bentonville, North Carolina); Marines Under Fire (The Mississippi Marine Brigade was formed to end Union troubles with riverside guerrillas. But the unique and innovative unit was a thorn in the side of an ambitious admiral who proved more dangerous than any guerrilla) Departments - My War - The Plot To Seize St. Louis (In the secession crisis of 1861, Missouri was on the fence. A member of a pro-Southern cabal remembers his part in a scheme to bring the state down on the side of secession, by any means necessary); Travel - Running The Blockade (Follow in the wake of blockade-runners along North Carolina's Cape Fear River - from Fort Fisher, at the river's mouth, to Wilmington, the last Confederate port); Behind The Lines; Reviews; Letters; News; Calendar; Gallery
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Civil War Times Illustrated
June
1996
Cover Story - Custer On The Rise (Last in his class at West Point, first in demerits, George Armstrong Custer seemed destined for mediocrity. The Civil War changed that, offering the ambitious Custer a chance to prove through action what he could not prove at the academy: that he was an extraordinary leader of men in combat. This is an exclusive excerpt from the author's forthcoming book); America Under Two Flags (The yacht America lent her name to the America's Cup by winning an 1851 race. Later, she lent her speed to both sides in the Civil War, first as a blockade-runner, then as a blockader); All Thumbs (How clumsy would a soldier have to be to shoot off his own thumb? When one regiment experienced an epidemic of missing thumbs, officers suspected the victims were more clever than clumsy); Rush To Glory (If one glorious battle was going to end the "rebellion," Union Brigadier General Daniel Tyler wanted to get on with it. His lust for action caused a near-fiasco at Blackburn's Ford on Bull Run in July, 1861) Departments - My War - Muzzle To Muzzle With The Merrimack (A Union Marine gats a very good look at a dreaded and powerful Confederate ironclad as it sets to work at sinking his ship); Travel - The City That Survived Sherman (Atlanta, site of the 1996 Olympic Games, has seen large influxes of visitors before, and has the historic landmarks to prove it. Our author takes us on a guided tour of Civil War Atlanta); Behind The Lines; News; Letters; Reviews; Calendar; Gallery
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Civil War
June
1996
Features - The Man Behind the Mine (Henry Pleasants had known much disappointment in his short life. Tragedy was his shadow. It was only fitting, then, that his most famous creation was a spectacular disaster.), When Opposites Meet (The knockdown, drag-out brawl we call the Battle of Pea Ridge saw Indians, frontier militia and raw volunteers slug it out amid the pines of the Ozarks. For the commanders, it was more a game of bluff poker.), The Hope of the Confederacy (Critics have long accused Confederate President Jefferson Davis of meddling in military affairs and undermining Confederate strategy. But what was that strategy and who developed it? One of today's leading analysis of command in the Civil War talks about Davis and his partnership with Robert E. Lee.) Departments - The Printed War: Essays & Reviews (Rampant absenteeism gave Armies just deserts.), Dispatches from Our Correspondents with the Armies (The Army of Northern Virginia), (The District of Western Louisiana), The Valley District), (General Dix's Department of Virginia) Portraits in Conflict (Blue-blooded George Wythe Randolph - Sailor, Soldier, Secretary - may have been the Confederacy's best bureaucrat.), Weapons (Whitworth Rifle - Sniping tool of the Confederacy.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
August
1996
Cover Story - The Devil's Navy (Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a genius at doing more with less. Give him a handful of underfed horsemen and a few artillery pieces, and he could create unparalleled havoc. So, when he got control of an armored Union gunboat in the fall of 1864, all hell broke loose on the Tennessee River); Cycloramas (Artists needed a big medium to convey an event as massive as the Civil War to the postwar public. In the days before movies, the "cyclorama" was that medium. Today, however, few of these great circular paintings survive); First Of The First (When President Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the Union, thousands of men rushed to enlist. Who was first? We can narrow the field to two men, but there a feud begins); Tall Tales Of The Civil War (If some of our favorite Civil War stories seem too good to be true, it may be because they are. But who doesn't love a good story. Pull up a chair, and keep a few grains of salt handy) Departments - Travel - The Road To Antietam (Our author leads us on a unique tour of the areas surrounding Antietam National Battlefield, following the routes spelled out for Lee's divisions in the "Lost Orders"); My War - In Harm's Way (Members of a German immigrant family put their life on hold when war swept over their new found home on the Arkansas prairie. The first of two parts); Behind The Lines; News; Reviews; Letters; Calendar; Gallery
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Civil War
August
1996
Features - The Other Jefferson Davis (Having the same name as the Confederate president was not exactly murder on the career of Federal General Jefferson C. Davis, but his personal history did include homicide.), The Way It Looked: A Conversation with Don Troiani (Every history lover dreams of traveling back in time, but with H.G. Wells nowhere in sight, Don Troiani's paintings mught just be the next best thing to a time machine.), A Year at Sea (A farm boy joins the Navy to see the world and sees the sea - and a lot of adventure - from Boston to New Orleans.), The Revenge of Turner Ashby (Was Jackson's daredevil cavalry chief incredibly brave or just a little crazy? The answer may lie somewhere in between.)
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America's Civil War
September
1996
Rebel Rout of Streight's Raiders (As Union Colonel Abel D. Streight's infantry left Mount Hope, Ala., on April 28. 1863 he had Brig. Gen. Grenville Dodge's assurance that Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was "on the run". Forest was running all right - after Streight), The Russians Are Coming (A diplomatic campaign to seek warm-water havens for the ships in case of war with Britain or France paid big dividends for Russia, which the New York Sun hailed as "the only European power that has maintained a hearty sympathy with the United States during our present troubles".), From Montezuma to Manassas (On July 21, 1861, U.S. Marines landed once more-this time on the southern bank of Bull Run. What followed was described by their commandant as "the first instance recorded in its history where any portion of [the Corps] members turned their backs to the enemy."), Iriquois Chief and Union Officer Ely Parker (Before surrendering at Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee shook hands with all of the Union officers present. When the Southern commander came to Lt. Col. Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian, he remarked, "I am glad to see one real American here." Parker replied, "We are all American.")
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Blue & Gray
Fall
1996
The General's Tour - The Battle of Wilson's Creek (The 'Damnedest Yankee' saves Missouri for the Union), Beverly H. Robertson and the Battle of Brandy Station: An Examination of General Robertson's Conduct in the Great Cavalry Battle, Camp Talk Extra: More Great News from Brandy Station
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Civil War Times Illustrated
October
1996
Cover Story - Fight For The Flag (Long after the smoke of the Civil War had cleared, a battle continued to rage in the South, over who deserved credit for designing the "Stars and Bars," first flag of the Confederacy. Our article on the flag and the dispute surrounding it is accompanied by a gallery of Confederate flags from the collection of the Museum of the Confederacy); The Familiar Road (Confederate Brigadier General John Adam's last day alive took him back down the road toward his childhood home, to fight and die in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee); Gallantry Under Fire (Could black troops be relied upon in combat, or would they break down and run away? The 14 Medals of Honor earned by black soldiers at New Market Heights answered that question once and for all); Air War Over Virginia (The Civil War "air force" takes to the sky as two balloonists vie for control of the Union army's aerial reconnaissance efforts. With a sidebar on Confederate military ballooning) Departments - Travel - Imagining Civi War New York (New York City has changed a great deal since the 1860s, but lingering traces of the city's rich Civil War history still await the informed traveler); My War - The Hermannsburg Treasure Hunt (In this second of two parts, a refugee recounts a secret trip to his abandoned Arkansas home to retrieve hidden gold, under constant danger from Rebels, Yankees and Indians); Behind The Lines; Reviews; Letters; News; Calendar; Gallery
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America's Civil War
November
1996
A Flank Unturned at Chickamauga (By mid-afternoon of September 19, 1863, Maj. Gen. Wilbur S. Rosecrans reported that his forces were "driving the Rebels in the center hadsomely" and he believed that "we will drive them across the Chickamauga tonight". He believed wrong.), Kill Cavalry's Nasty Surprise (Before daybreak on March 10, 1865, Confederate cavalrymen stole upon Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick's headquarters near Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C. No pickets had been posted, allowing the Rebels to ride up to the Union camp without being noticed.), Firing The Norfolk Navy Yard (Virginia Governor John Letcher sent Navy Captain Robert B. Pegram to Norfolk on April 18, 1861, to "assume command of the naval station...and do and perform whatever may be necessary to preserve and protect the property of the Commonwealth and the citizens of Virginia".), They Rode With Quantrill (A handful of the "bushwackers" who raided with Colonel William Quantrill in Missouri and Kansas were genuine murders, some of whom added to theor notoriety after the Civil War. The rest would be branded by the company they kept.), Personality (Many good Samaritans - including Walt Whitman - bore witness to the poignant death of Oscar Wilbe.), Ordance (Without the unsung undertaker, the Civil War would have been an even greater horror for all involved.), Commands (The 36th Alabama entered the Battle of Chickamauga with 401 muskets. The next day the regiment was down to 296.), Reviews (Ambrose Bierce emerged from the Civil War as a cynic "whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be".), Travel (Munfordville's Green River Bridge made the town a prize in the struggle for control of Kentucky.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
December
1997
"It Is Well That War Is So Terrible..." (135 years ago, a 130,000-man Union army crowded the banks of the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg, Virginia. The awesome, tragic attack that followed moved Confederate General Robert E. Lee to remark, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it."); David And Goliath (A young Union Navy officer in a small open boat proves to be the undoing of a legendary and fearsome Confederate ironclad); Coins For A New Country (Confederate treasury officials who struggled to mint metal currency for their new republic would be shocked at what their coins are worth today); Shattered Like Earthen Vessels (Five east Tennessee men who were potters by day and pro-Union raiders by night pay the ultimate price for their loyalties); King Of The Hill (Late on the Battle of Gettysburg's second day, one brigade saved the Union line, holding Culp's Hill against multiple attacks by superior numbers. The man who made it possible was 62-year-old George Sears Greene) Departments - My War - At Fredericksburg, With Stonewall (An the night after the First Battle of Fredericksburg, one of Stonewall Jackson's aides witnesses the general's compassion and humanity); Travel - Taking The Heights (Fredericksburg, Virginia, is a singularly charming town but remainders of the 1862 battle that raged here are written indelibly on the landscape); Behind The Lines; Letters; Reviews; News; Calendar; Gallery
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America's Civil War
July
1998
Near Miss at Davis' Cross Roads (Major General William S. Rosecrans had high hopes as his Federals crossed Lookout Mountain in Spetember 1863 during their pursuit of Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee. "We supposed the enemy were in full retreat...", one Union officer later recalled, "but we were mistaken."), Escape From Clark's Mountain (On August 18, 1862, General Robert E. Lee had his entire army massed behind Clark's Mountain in Virginia, ready to launch a surprise atrike on Maj. Gen. John Pope's forces across the Rapidan River. Unknown to Lee, however, a daring Union spy had infiltrated the Confederate army and threatened to thwart his plans.), Lost Opportunity at Gettysburg (The Confederate assault on Cemetery Ridge 135 years ago had a propitious beginning when Lt. Gen. James Longstreet smashed the left of the Federal line. But confusion among the Southern commanders turned a potential victory into a bloody stalemate.), Last Voyage of CSS Hunley (Designed to torpedo Union blockading ships, the submarine CSS H.L. Hunley had a series of deadly trial runs, erning her the nickname "Peripatetic Coffin". After her only successful sortie, Hunley vanished - her whereabouts a mystery for more than 130 years.), Personality (A bloody clash in Baltimore prompted college professor James Ryder Randall to pen "My Maryland".), Commands (Leading a cavalry charge at Stones River, Colonel Minor Milliken called to his 1st Ohio troopers, "Death or glory, boys."), Ordance ("Timberclads" spearheaded the Union advance into Tennessee while formidable ironclad ships were under construction.), Reviews (Although he lacked an impressive persona, General Ulysses Simpson Grant knew how to win a battle.), Eyewitness To War (Samuel Partridge detailed his daunting responsibilities as a Union quartermaster in a series of letters to his brother.)
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Civil War Times Illustrated
August
1998
Who's To Blame (Exposing the real scapegoat for the South's loss at Gettysburg), Stories Of The Stones (Some strange stories from the over 1,600 monuments at Gettysburg), The Kid (A scrawny kid joined the 12th Massachusetts Infantry at Gettysburg then disappeared but a fellow soldier searches for him), Rebels In Pennsylvania (Lee was trying to capture Harrisburg until the Battle of Gettysburg interrupted)
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Civil War
October
1998
Features - Sheridan and Crook: Anatomy of a Failed Friendship (Together they survived the assaults of Confederate armies. Could the onslaught of victory and fame tear them apart?), "A Deficiency of Judgement": The Trent Affair (The misguided bravado of one brash officer brought the Lincoln administration its most delicate diplomatic crisis.), A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Incident on the Nueces (Fate made a group of German immigrants central figures in perhaps the blackest day in Texan history.) Departments - The Printed War: Essays and Reviews (Boy George, Unhappy Histories of a failed prodigy.), Unconquered by the Battlefield (Psychological warfare and the Making of a combat soldier.)
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America's Civil War
November
1998
Capture Of A Rebel Raider (Commander Napoleon Collins of the Federal sloop of war Wachusett spotted the infamous CSS Florida sailing into Brazil's Bahia Harbor on October 4, 1864 and soon began making plans to end the Confederate commerce raider's destructive career - a move that would precipitate a heated diplomatic dispute); Devil Dan Sickles' Deadly Salients (Political General Daniel Sickles, whom one Union colonel described as "a man after show and notoriety and the adulation of the mob," significantly stretched his battlefield orders at Chancellorsville and disobeyed them outright at Gettysburg. His tactical follies seriously jeopardized his III Corps and the Army of the Potomac); Last Stand At Fort Blakely (In April 1865, Confederate defenders at Fort Blakely, AL., made one final stand against Federal troops advancing on Mobile and faced a tremendous Union barrage. "It appeared to me that all hell had turned loose," one Confederate corporal later recalled, "and that every man in the U.S. was practicing on us with repeating rifles."); War In The Streets Of Lewisburg (The small western Virginia town of Lewisburg, home to staunch secessionists, lay in the way of a Federal strike agains the vital Virginia & Tennessee Railroad. At dawn, on May 23, 1862, citizens of Lewisburg awoke to a full-scale battle exploding in their midst); Editorial; Commands (The 12th New Hampshire was part of the first infantry brigade to march into the fallen Confederate capital); Ordance (Using their new Sharps and Whitworth rifles, sharpshooters picked off targets with deadly accuracy); Personality (Propagandist Henry Hotze worked diligently in London to generate support for the Confederacy); Reviews (The May 1864 Spotsylvania campaign featured some of the most brutal, constant fighting of the war); Civil War Art Gallery; Eyewitness To War (Private Samuel W. Paulett of the 18th Virginia recorded his impressions of the last desperate days of the Confederacy); ACW Marketplace
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Civil War
December
1998
Features - "Nothing to be Gained, and Great Risks Taken" (The players in the 1862 Army-Navy Contest were brave, enthusiastic and should have been somewhere else), Louisa May Alcott and the Transcendance of War (One of America's more enduring literary classics had its roots in the author's brief, but intense, immersion in the horrors of war), The Last Chance (Nowhere was Douthern Courage more evident - time and time again - than beneath the waters of Charleston harbor) Departments - The Printed War: Essays and Reviews (The Battle for Joe Johnston), War News (Reconstruction the Home of the Unreconstructed Rebel)
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America's Civil War
January
1999
Stonewall Jackson Takes The Stand (Arrested for neglect of duty following Stonewall Jackson's defeat at Kernstown, VA., on March 23, 1862, Brig. Gen. Richard Garnett attempted to defend his honor during the most famous military trial in Confederate history); The Civil War's Seagoing Surgeons (Assistant surgeon David Llewellen was operating on a wounded thigh aboard CSS Alabama when an 11-inch shell crashed through the Confederate ship's hull and swept away the patient and operating table. Enemy fire was just one of myriad problems facing naval medical officers); Federal Assault At Chancellorsville (After the brilliant Confederate flank attack at Chancellorsville, Union Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick marched his VI Corps east from Fredericksburg to attack the rear of Lee's army. The two forces collided at Salem Church on May3, 1863); High Tide In The Bluegrass State ("My expedition is something like Cortez" Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith proclaimed, referring to his 1862 invasion of Kentucky. "I have burned my ships behind me and thrown myself boldly into the enemies country." The Confederate General was not about to let a force of green Federal troops at Richmond, KY stand in his way); Editorial; Commands (The battle-weary 7th Tennessee infantry made its final stand on April 2, 1865 at Hatcher's Run); Ordnance (Using a "wigwag" flag system, the Confederate Signal Corps relayed critical orders and intelligence); Personality (Captain Frederick Stowe, son of the famous novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, fell wounded at Gettysburg); Reviews (Although Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell was eccentric, he was also a competent commander); Eyewitness To War (Iowa infantryman David Sharp wrote many letters to his wife - including his last - from Missouri); Civil War Art Gallery; ACW Marketplace
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Civil War Times Illustrated
August
1999
Special Issue: Women In The Civil War - Her War (Most women never fired a shot or risked their lives on a charge. Instead, they fought the Civil War on a front that Generals like William T. Sherman recognized as the most crucial one: the home front. Our pictorial essay offers a glimpse at the varied war experiences of different kinds of women); Washer Women (Wherever the army went, she went, too, taking along her unique weapons: tubs, scrub board, and soap. She was the army laundress, and she helped make soldier life bearable); She Voted With Her Voice (When Connecticut Republicans needed a speaker who could turn the tide in a tight election, they found that the right man for the job was a woman); Nurse Pember And The Whiskey War (A Confederate nurse holds off hoodlums at gunpoint when they demand the hospital's whiskey); 'Die Like A Damned Dog' (In the North Carolina mountains, where war was personal and enemies were neighbors, one woman lost everything she loved in a few minutes); "Wilton, My Dear Old Home" (A confederate woman of Union-held Alexandria, Virginia, writes of hunger, plunderers, loyal slaves, and Mosby's men in the winter of 1863); Life At The Edge Of War (The war moved back and forth past Meadow Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia, but spared the homestead for visitors from later generations); Behind The Lines; Letters; Reviews; News; Calendar; Gallery
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