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Departments 06 Editorial Always a cool head in a tight spot, Colonel Benjamin Grier- son found a way to help General William T. ...

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Roy Morris Jr. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, not the easiest man to please, always held Colonel Benjamin Grierson in h ...

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With the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Civil War began in earnest. The first recruits, on both sides, were com- ...

General Robert E. Lee’s wife, Mary Anne Custis, was delayed and questioned by provost guards during a trip before her identity w ...

commanders or through the appropriate staff officers. Even in the most remote com- mands, the provost machinery was firmly in pl ...

pend habeas corpus, and virtually anything that smacked of a threat to states’ rights was strenuously resisted. Provost responsi ...

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ON March 8, 1864, a rainy Tues- day, President and Mrs. Lin- coln held a reception at the White House in Washington. This in its ...

mentor in writing that he did not “ask or feel that I deserve anything more in the shape in honors or promotion.” However, he di ...

every stop along the way large crowds gathered to see and cheer the man who seemed destined to save the Union. This not only sur ...

as lieutenant general in the Regular Army. To make the occasion more newsworthy, Lincoln had assembled his entire cabinet. After ...

addition, contrary to what Grant had been led to believe, Lincoln and Stanton were not eager to remove Meade from command and di ...

To the Heights of Richmond In late September 1864, Ulysses S. Grant mounted his fifth offensive against Confederate forces at Pe ...

R eports of a massive enemy force crossing the James River to assail the paper-thin Confederate lines defending Richmond reached ...

too late to save Fort Harrison. The next few hours would show whether or not he was too late to save Richmond itself. The Union’ ...