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Contents: Guardians Of Mobile Bay (The Civil War forts that guarded Alabama against the Union navy still stood as sentinels at the mouth of Mobile Bay, weathered, but largely unchanged); A Midnight Ride (The Union leadership had to warn its newest commander of the enemy’s concentration near a small Pennsylvania village: Gettysburg. But the general couldn’t be reached by telegraph. The responsibility for hand-delivering the message fell on a young telegrapher named Fonda); A Single Step (“Stonewall” Jackson’s footsteps across Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley shook an entire nation. But the first stride of his “army of the living God” was an almost unnoticed, completely unexpected battle in the mountains near McDowell, Virginia); CWTI Book Preview: A Woman Of Valor (It wasn’t easy for a woman to become a heroine during our nation’s first century. The few who managed it have been cast in marble by history. CWTI‘s excerpt of the new book about Clara Barton by one of America’s greatest biographers reveals the heroic nurse not as a statue, but as a living, breathing, loving human being); Remote History (Dig the channel changer out from betwen the cushions – cable television is taking a crack at Civil War history. Can the nation’s biggest war survive on the small screen); Wheat’s Tigers (When the original Louisiana Tigers went north to Virginia, their colorful Zouave garb made them stand out. Their rowdy behavior and battlefield bravery soon made them notorious); To Honor The Dead: Last Taps At La Glorieta Pass (What do you do when Confederate soldiers turn up unexpectedly more than a century after their deaths? After years of controversy, New Mexico found a solution); To Honor The Dead: A Proper Burial In Charleston (When a Charleston, South Carolina, women suspected Confederate graves had been paved over to make a football stadium parking lot, her course of action was clear: launch a crusade to find out the truth, and make sure the dead are laid to rest) Departments – Behind The Lines; 130 Years Ago; In Print; Letters To The Editor; Time Lapse; Coming Events
Issue: March – April 1994
Condition: Very Good