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Contents WWII History Presents: Civil War Quarterly(ISSN 2159-8851) is published by Sovereign Media, 6731 Whittier Avenue, Suite ...

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Roy Morris Jr. The continued presence of a handpicked French puppet emperor in Mexico, which had so worried the Lincoln administ ...

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For more than 45 years, Joseph Mansfield prepared himself for the ultimate test of a soldier—high command in time of war. After ...

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Thanks to his familiarity with the Texas coast as a result of his frequent expeditions to locate suitable supply depot locations ...

capital throughout the Civil War. One of his most important decisions was to seize and fortify the southern bank of the Potomac, ...

Corps, formerly Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Bank’s II Corps in the Army of Virginia, in the aftermath of Maj. Gen. John Pope’s defeat at ...

generally behaving like a junior comman- der whose blood was up. While at first he appeared to the men as “a calm and digni- fie ...

Black Thursday at S a With Confederate forces in full retreat after the fall of Petersburg, alert Union forces charged through a ...

F our hundred Confederate sailors and marines, their small arms loaded and ready, awaited their orders. Some men had their cutla ...

steadily lengthening system of earthworks stretching more than 20 miles south from Richmond to Petersburg. For months, they held ...

confusion afflicting the army, the soldiers found the Marine Brigade an amusing spectacle. Tucker’s men answered their officers’ ...

while they walked.” At any brief halt, the men fell to the ground and slept until their officers woke them again. “Those first o ...

the troopers rode over high ground, they could see Lee’s train moving along through gaps in the woods. Mile by mile, the blue- c ...

troopers and the smoke of burning supply wagons. Anderson halted at Marshall’s Crossroads, his two divisions taking up positions ...