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Contents: The Proving Ground (In the 1840s, when future Civil War generals were still young men, many got their first taste of combat in the Mexican War. Their experience in battle with names like Monterey, Vera Cruz and Churubusco would guide them as they fought one another on American soil nearly two decades later); The Tormenting Flame (Fire and brimstone flowed from Ambrose Bierce’s pen when he wrote about his Civil War days. But the war experiences that made him a great American writer were a cancer that tormented him for the rest of his life); A Moving Picture (Fifty years after Pickett’s Charge, actors restaged the Battle of Gettysburg in the California hills. The resulting film impressed moviegoers – especially Civil War veterans. Rare stills from the lost film offer a glimpse of what captivated viewers in 1913); Sneak Attack At Lone Jack (Federal calvarymen’s breakfast had to wait when Confederates four times their number swept into a tiny Missouri town. The Yankee troopers were in for the fight of their lives) Departments – Travel (Andersonville Remembers America’s POWs: The prison camp that Union soldiers considered hell on earth is today a neatly manufactured national park commemorating the sacrifices of all American prisoners of war); My War (“Blood and Feathered” At Malvern Hill – On the last day of the Seven Days Campaign, a Union sharpshooter falls victim to a well-aimed Rebel rifle, but lives to tell the tale. The second of two parts); Behind The Lines; Letters; Reviews; News; Calendar; Gallery
Issue: April 1996
Condition: Very Good