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Contents: 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.)
Issue: Winter 1992
Condition: Very Good