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Contents: Personality (British-born Paul Francois de Gournay was one of the Confederate officers behind the deadly guns of Port Hudson.), Ordnance (“No gun is so well suited in all respects to the wants of cavalry”, said Rebel Brig. Gen. Basil Duke of mountain howitzers.), Commands (The 14th Kentucky Cavalry fought no major battles, but skirmished in the mountains of its native state.), Reviews (For six months, two bumbling commanders dueled over the fate of Kentucky.), Travel (A bloody route that took General Ulysses S. Grant almost a year to travel can now be covered in four days.), Ironclad Assault at Trent’s Reach (Once he had cleared the obstructions from its path, Confederate commander John K. Mitchell hoped that his James River Squadron could move on to devastate the Union supply depot at City Point, VA. But the tide had turned against him – literally.), Limbs Made and Unmade by War (During the Civil War, the production of prosthetic limbs for thousands of amputees became, as physician and author Oliver Wendall Holmes put it, a great and active branch of homegrown American industry.), Wrecking on the Railroad (In January 1864, while Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Rebel guerrillas harried his supply lines, Mag. Gen. William T. Sherman launched a campaign to destroy Mississippi’s logistic lifelines.), Meagher of the Sword (Described in his youth as “truculent, noisy, brash, verbose and belligerent”, Thomas E. Meagher turned those unflattering traits into assets as commander of the Union army’s famed Irish Brigade.)
Issue: September 1995
Condition: Very Good