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City Under Siege: The New York Draft Riots
By Rick BeardFor four breathlessly hot days in mid-July 1863, New York City became the northernmost battleground of the Civil War. Read more
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The Crater: Explosion of Death
By John WalkerIt was just after 3 am on Saturday, July 30, 1864. A month of relative quiet along a two-mile stretch of Union and Confederate trench lines immediately east of Petersburg, Virginia, was about to come to an explosive end. Read more
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The Fort Pillow Incident
By Roy Morris Jr.When Confederate Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and his 3,000 battle-hardened troopers rode back into their homeland of West Tennessee in late March 1864, they were not in the best of moods. Read more
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Southerner vs. Southerner: Union Supporters Below the Mason-Dixon Line
By Carole E. ScottThe Confederate States of America fought two wars, one against the armed forces of the United States and one against fellow Southerners who joined either the Union Army or pro-Union guerrilla groups. Read more
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Swirling Cavalry Fight at Trevilian Station
By Arnold BlumbergDespite costing the Union Army 55,000 men in five weeks of hard marching and grueling combat, Lt. Gen. Read more
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The 1st and 2nd Cavalry Regiments: Jefferson Davis’s Pet Project
By Cowan BrewUnder a bright, high sun in a pale blue Midwestern sky, six companies of the United States Cavalry’s 1st Regiment rode into a grassy valley bordering the south fork of the Solomon River in northwestern Kansas on the afternoon of July 29, 1857. Read more
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The Likable, Inept Ambrose Burnside
By Roy Morris Jr.Nothing in Ambrose Burnside’s pre-Civil War career indicated that he would be anything but a successful and energetic general. Read more
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Medal of Honor Awardee Horace Porter’s Astonishing Career
By Richard H. Owens, Ph.D.Horace Porter was born April 15, 1837 in Huntingdon, Pa. He traced his ancestry and family motto, “Vigilantia et virtute,” to William De La Grange, who accompanied William the Conqueror to England in 1066. Read more
