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06 Editorial

Likable, inept Ambrose Burnside knew better than

anyone that he was ill-suited to command an entire

army in combat.Roy Morris Jr.

Features

08 Southerner vs. Southerner

A sizable minority of Southerners, particularly in border states such as Tennessee, Missouri,

and Kentucky, did not support the Confederacy. Acts of civil disobedience and sabotage led

to a severe crackdown on Southern Unionists.Carole E. Scott

22 The Crater: Explosion of Death

An ambitious plan to tunnel beneath Confederate defenses at Petersburg and blast a huge

hole in the line inadvertently became a literal crater of death for the black and white Union

soldiers who poured into the opening. John Walker

34 Jeff Davis’s Pets

Secretary of War Jefferson David lobbied long and hard for the creation of two new cavalry

regiments. The handpicked 1st and 2nd Cavalry were a veritable Who’s Who of future Civil

War generals. Cowan Brew

42 City Under Siege

After the Lincoln administration began drafting Northerners for the war effort in July 1863,

mobs of outraged New York citizens, most of them Irish immigrants, savagely attacked

policemen, soldiers, and innocent African Americans whom they blamed for the draft.

Rick Beard

56 An Astonishing Career

Few Union men saw more of the war or its principal commanders than Medal of Honor awardee

Horace Porter. Richard H. Owens

68 The Fort Pillow Incident

When Nathan Bedford Forrest’s angry horsemen surrounded Fort Pillow, the defenders’ refusal to

surrender forced him to make a costly frontal attack. The ensuing battle devolved into a frenzied

melee that Forrest would never live down. Roy Morris Jr.

78 Jackson Confounds the Yankees

Stonewall Jackson improvised his stunning Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862 with good

measures of hard work, cunning, and luck. Brooke C. Stoddard

88 Swirling Cavalry Fight at Trevilian Station

At Trevilian Station, a two-day cavalry fight in June 1864 matched Phil Sheridan’s Union forces

against Wade Hampton’s Confederates. It would be the largest cavalry battle of the war.

Arnold Blumberg

EARLY SPRING 2016

RETAILER DISPLAY UNTIL MAY 23

STONEWALL

JACKSON’S

Valley Campaign

EXPLOSION OF DEATH

Battle of

the Crater

CUSTER’S NARROW ESCAPE

Cavalry Fight at

Trevilian Station

MASSACRE OR MADNESS?

Slaughter at Fort Pillow

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JEFFERSON DAVIS’S 1ST & 2ND CAVALRY, NEW YORK CITY DRAFT RIOTS, SOUTHERN UNIONISTS,

+AND MUCH MORE INSIDE!

COVER: Painting © Don Troiani,

Historical Art Prints

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