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Contents: The Devil’s Navy (Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest was a genius at doing more with less. Give him a handful of underfed horsemen and a few artillery pieces, and he could create unparalleled havoc. So, when he got control of an armored Union gunboat in the fall of 1864, all hell broke loose on the Tennessee River); Cycloramas (Artists needed a big medium to convey an event as massive as the Civil War to the postwar public. In the days before movies, the “cyclorama” was that medium. Today, however, few of these great circular paintings survive); First Of The First (When President Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the Union, thousands of men rushed to enlist. Who was first? We can narrow the field to two men, but there a feud begins); Tall Tales Of The Civil War (If some of our favorite Civil War stories seem too good to be true, it may be because they are. But who doesn’t love a good story. Pull up a chair, and keep a few grains of salt handy) Departments – Travel – The Road To Antietam (Our author leads us on a unique tour of the areas surrounding Antietam National Battlefield, following the routes spelled out for Lee’s divisions in the “Lost Orders”); My War – In Harm’s Way (Members of a German immigrant family put their life on hold when war swept over their new found home on the Arkansas prairie. The first of two parts); Behind The Lines; News; Reviews; Letters; Calendar; Gallery
Issue: August 1996
Condition: Very Good