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Contents: A Flank Unturned at Chickamauga (By mid-afternoon of September 19, 1863, Maj. Gen. Wilbur S. Rosecrans reported that his forces were “driving the Rebels in the center handsomely” and he believed that “we will drive them across the Chickamauga tonight”. He believed wrong.), Kill Cavalry’s Nasty Surprise (Before daybreak on March 10, 1865, Confederate cavalrymen stole upon Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick’s headquarters near Monroe’s Cross Roads, N.C. No pickets had been posted, allowing the Rebels to ride up to the Union camp without being noticed.), Firing The Norfolk Navy Yard (Virginia Governor John Letcher sent Navy Captain Robert B. Pegram to Norfolk on April 18, 1861, to “assume command of the naval station…and do and perform whatever may be necessary to preserve and protect the property of the Commonwealth and the citizens of Virginia”.), They Rode With Quantrill (A handful of the “bushwhackers” who raided with Colonel William Quantrill in Missouri and Kansas were genuine murders, some of whom added to theory notoriety after the Civil War. The rest would be branded by the company they kept.), Personality (Many good Samaritans – including Walt Whitman – bore witness to the poignant death of Oscar Wilbe.), Ordnance (Without the unsung undertaker, the Civil War would have been an even greater horror for all involved.), Commands (The 36th Alabama entered the Battle of Chickamauga with 401 muskets. The next day the regiment was down to 296.), Reviews (Ambrose Bierce emerged from the Civil War as a cynic “whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be”.), Travel (Munfordville’s Green River Bridge made the town a prize in the struggle for control of Kentucky.)
Issue: November 1996
Condition: Very Good