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Contents: Jo Shelby and His Shadow (When Confederate forces surrendering in the spring of 1865, Brig. Gen. Joseph O. Shelby and his friend, Major John. N. Edwards, came up with one last plan to keep the Cause alive-establish a new Southern republic in Mexico), Great Escape from a Rebel Prison (“Our life was monotonous in the extreme” wrote Union Private Robert Burke of his captivity at Camp Ford, Texas. “Naturally a person confined to such quarters would let his thoughts dwell much of the time on liberty.”), Brief Breach at Fredericksburg (Out of ammunition, Brig. Gen. James Lane’s North Carolinians fell back before the men of Brig. Gen. John Gibbon’s 2nd Division-through not before two soldiers of the 16th Maine were speared by bayonet-tipped rifles thrown at them by retreating Rebels,), Resort of the Dead (On June 18, 1864, the Raleigh Daily Confederate announced the conversion of the Kittrell’s Springs Hotel into a hospital: “This popular place of summer resort is now open for the reception of our sick and wounded soldiers.”)
Issue: March 1995
Condition: Very Good