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Contents: Smoketown Hospital (After the Battle of Antietam, hundreds of wounded men fought for their lives in tent hospitals set up on the battlefield. Rare photographs, published here for the first time, provide a window into one such facility, Smoketown Hospital. Words from a surgeon seen in the photos bring the pictures to life); Blind Justice (Despite his young age, Ephraim Dodd was a veteran of battles in Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The star on his sombrero identified him as a Texas Ranger. To a Union army court, however he was just a spy and spies had to be hung); Joe Johnston’s Last Charge (Only a military miracle could stop the Unio war machine in March, 1865. It was up to General Joseph E. Johnston and a war-weary Rebel army to provide one. Johnston and his proud troops would show their mettle at Bentonville, North Carolina); Marines Under Fire (The Mississippi Marine Brigade was formed to end Union troubles with riverside guerrillas. But the unique and innovative unit was a thorn in the side of an ambitious admiral who proved more dangerous than any guerrilla) Departments – My War – The Plot To Seize St. Louis (In the secession crisis of 1861, Missouri was on the fence. A member of a pro-Southern cabal remembers his part in a scheme to bring the state down on the side of secession, by any means necessary); Travel – Running The Blockade (Follow in the wake of blockade-runners along North Carolina’s Cape Fear River – from Fort Fisher, at the river’s mouth, to Wilmington, the last Confederate port); Behind The Lines; Reviews; Letters; News; Calendar; Gallery
Issue: May 1996
Condition: Very Good