One Confederate soldier's descriptive letters to his family offering a personal view of the devastating Civil War a
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An immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in the English Civil War that illuminates the human experien
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On 4 April 1862, Major General George McClellan marched his 121,500-strong Army of the Potomac from Fort Monroe toward R
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These three charming Southern "capitals" (including the oldest in America) are massively popular tourist desti
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The collection story -- "A part in this great struggle," October 21, 1861-March 17, 1862 -- "The bullets
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It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war—a siege that drove men, women, and children to seek shelter in caves under
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In 1864, six hundred Confederate prisoners of war, all officers, were taken out of a prison camp in Delaware and transpo
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Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this
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In an age of new threats to international security, the old rules of war are rapidly being discarded by the great powers
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The Lower Mississippi Valley is more than just a distinct geographical region of the United States; it was central to th
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In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (1831-1908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army. Over
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