Description
Contents: Capture Of A Rebel Raider (Commander Napoleon Collins of the Federal sloop of war Wachusett spotted the infamous CSS Florida sailing into Brazil’s Bahia Harbor on October 4, 1864 and soon began making plans to end the Confederate commerce raider’s destructive career – a move that would precipitate a heated diplomatic dispute); Devil Dan Sickles’ Deadly Salients (Political General Daniel Sickles, whom one Union colonel described as “a man after show and notoriety and the adulation of the mob,” significantly stretched his battlefield orders at Chancellorsville and disobeyed them outright at Gettysburg. His tactical follies seriously jeopardized his III Corps and the Army of the Potomac); Last Stand At Fort Blakely (In April 1865, Confederate defenders at Fort Blakely, AL., made one final stand against Federal troops advancing on Mobile and faced a tremendous Union barrage. “It appeared to me that all hell had turned loose,” one Confederate corporal later recalled, “and that every man in the U.S. was practicing on us with repeating rifles.”); War In The Streets Of Lewisburg (The small western Virginia town of Lewisburg, home to staunch secessionists, lay in the way of a Federal strike agains the vital Virginia & Tennessee Railroad. At dawn, on May 23, 1862, citizens of Lewisburg awoke to a full-scale battle exploding in their midst); Editorial; Commands (The 12th New Hampshire was part of the first infantry brigade to march into the fallen Confederate capital); Ordance (Using their new Sharps and Whitworth rifles, sharpshooters picked off targets with deadly accuracy); Personality (Propagandist Henry Hotze worked diligently in London to generate support for the Confederacy); Reviews (The May 1864 Spotsylvania campaign featured some of the most brutal, constant fighting of the war); Civil War Art Gallery; Eyewitness To War (Private Samuel W. Paulett of the 18th Virginia recorded his impressions of the last desperate days of the Confederacy); ACW Marketplace
Issue: November 1998
Condition: Very Good