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Contents: 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 “extravagant 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 sentinels.), 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.)
Issue: January 1994
Condition: Very Good