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How Did Stonewall Jackson Actually Die?
By J.D. HainesFollowing his greatest victory, at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Read more
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Stonewall Jackson’s Hard Defeat At The Second Battle of Manassas
By Todd S. BerkoffAs the bright red sun was slowly setting over their shoulders on the balmy evening of August 28, 1862, Union troops marching east along the Warrenton Turnpike knew nothing of what awaited them. Read more
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Battle of Richmond, Kentucky: Cannae in the Bluegrass State
By Pedro GarciaOn September 7, 1862, Colonel Walter Taylor of General Robert E. Lee’s staff wrote to his sister: “The Yankee papers of the 6th exhibit a gloomy picture for our enemy. Read more
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Ambrose Powell Hill: His Greatest Action at the Battle of Antietam
By William E. WelshBy mid-afternoon on September 17, 1862, the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia were locked in mortal combat on the rolling hills overlooking the sluggish waters of Antietam Creek in northwestern Maryland. Read more
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Union General John Pope: Cracking Island No. 10
By Robert Collins-SuhrWith its whistle blaring, the Confederate gunboat Grampus steamed into Madrid Bend, where Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas come together on the Mississippi River. Read more
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Stonewall Jackson & Nathaniel Banks at Cedar Mountain
By William E. WelshFollowing the completion of Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s unsuccessful Peninsula campaign earlier in the month, General Robert E. Read more
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The Frémont Emancipation Proclamation
By Lawrence WeberAs the early days of the Civil War were unfolding and the destiny of the republic was beginning to be contested on the battlefield, Abraham Lincoln was engaged in a no less perilous type of battle. Read more
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The Worst American Civil War Generals and Commanders
By William Welsh The Worst Civil War Generals on the ConfederacyConfederate Maj. Gen. Gideon Pillow. After gaining ground trying to cut an escape path for the Confederates during the February 1862 siege of Fort Donelson by Union forces led Brig. Read more
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Battle of Antietam: Clash in the Cornfield
By Michael E. HaskewThe White House was a somber place in the summer of 1862. The Civil War was in the midst of its second costly year, and the Union armies had yet to win a significant victory in the eastern theater. Read more
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American Civil War Timeline – Southern Offensives Turned Back
by William E. WelshConfederate offensives into two border states, Maryland and Kentucky, formed the key highlights of the second half of 1862 for the Confederacy. Read more
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John Pope vs. Little Crow: The Sioux Uprising
By Roy Morris Jr.John Pope’s second campaign as an army commander went considerably better than his first. Not that it did his reputation—or Abraham Lincoln’s, for that matter—any particular good. Read more
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Grover’s Savage Attack at the Battle of Second Manassas
By William E. WelshThe New Englanders crept forward through the thick woods toward the Rebel position at mid-afternoon. Trading volleys with the Confederates behind the natural trench afforded by the unfinished railroad line during the Battle of Second Manassas in summer 1862 had so far proved unsuccessful throughout the scorching hot summer day. Read more
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Manassas Battlefield Park: Illuminating the Outset of the Civil War
by William E. WelshThe first thing that strikes a visitor to Henry Hill at Manassas National Battlefield Park is the spectacular view. Read more
