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Merritt’s cavalry, formed the southern leg of the triangle. Facing northeast toward VI Corps, Ewell’s men formed the opposite si ...
overlapped Kershaw’s right and got behind him. Nearly surrounded, a few of Ker- shaw’s men got away as their formation disintegr ...
way down the hill. Gordon managed to hold on until dark. He got away with part of his force but at the cost of abandoning the wa ...
Thunder TONES Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln had been personal and political opponents for 20 years when they clashed for D ...
T he two men facing each other across the debate stage at Ottawa, Illinois, on the afternoon of August 21, 1858, were no strange ...
was considerably less dramatic. He simply rolled into Jacksonville, the seat of Mor- gan County, aboard a stagecoach in the midd ...
based at least as much on political as romantic grounds, but against all odds, it endured for nearly a quarter of a century. Fol ...
prise. We reeled and fell in utter confusion. But we rose each fighting, grasping what- ever he could reach—a scythe—a pitch- fo ...
ing immediate and full civil rights on African Americans, a move he warned would “cover our prairies with [black] set- tlements ...
rogatories” from the previous debate. He denied favoring repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, the abolition of slavery in the Distr ...
Bush Johnston Lincoln, still lived in a log cabin in the area. An enormous 80-foot- wide banner hung across Main Street, showing ...
N athaniel Banks was a political crea- ture, and with his country in the throes of civil war, he now held the politically obtain ...
learned much in the interim. By the third year of the Civil War, the Union had gained the upper hand over the Confederacy, but t ...
nition, medicine, and other precious sup- plies regularly made landfall in Mexico and offloaded contraband that was hauled overl ...
Tecumseh Sherman would assess, pithily but accurately, as “one damn blunder from beginning to end.” The blueprint for the Red Ri ...
For months, Maj. Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, had observed the growing Un ...
Mower as he moved toward Henderson’s Hill, more than 20 miles northwest of Alexandria. With a brigade of cavalry, an artillery b ...
morning of April 7. Just three miles into the day’s advance, his troopers were struck hard by four regiments of Green’s Texas ca ...
crumbling everywhere and falling back.” Half a mile behind their first line, the flee- ing Union soldiers ran into a defensive c ...
center of the Union line. The charge soon came to grief as the Rebel riders were caught by flanking fire from an adjacent wooded ...
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