Description
Contents: 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
Issue: November – December 1990
Condition: Very Good