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Contents: Rebel Rout of Streight’s Raiders (As Union Colonel Abel D. Streight’s infantry left Mount Hope, Ala., on April 28. 1863 he had Brig. Gen. Grenville Dodge’s assurance that Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was “on the run”. Forest was running all right – after Streight), The Russians Are Coming (A diplomatic campaign to seek warm-water havens for the ships in case of war with Britain or France paid big dividends for Russia, which the New York Sun hailed as “the only European power that has maintained a hearty sympathy with the United States during our present troubles”.), From Montezuma to Manassas (On July 21, 1861, U.S. Marines landed once more-this time on the southern bank of Bull Run. What followed was described by their commandant as “the first instance recorded in its history where any portion of [the Corps] members turned their backs to the enemy.”), Iroquois Chief and Union Officer Ely Parker (Before surrendering at Appomattox, General Robert E. Lee shook hands with all of the Union officers present. When the Southern commander came to Lt. Col. Ely S. Parker, a Seneca Indian, he remarked, “I am glad to see one real American here.” Parker replied, “We are all American.”)
Issue: September 1996
Condition: Very Good