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Contents: 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.)
Issue: May 1993
Condition: Very Good