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Special Edition: Charles F. Smith, Teacher of Civil War Generals (April 24, 1862)
On April 24, 1862, Union General Charles Ferguson Smith died on the day after his fifty-fifth birthday in the Cherry Mansion in Savannah, Tennessee…
Apr 25
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Medal of Honor Edition (April 24, 1862)
On April 24, 1862, during the furious Union bombardment of Forts Jackson and Saint Philip, the U.S.S. Owasco, a Unadilla class gunboat, was one of seven…
Apr 24
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Special Edition: Letters from Robert E. Lee, Junior (April 23, 1862)
On April 23, 1862, eighteen-year-old Private Robert E. ‘Rob’ Lee, Jr. wrote a letter to his father General Robert E. Lee, who was serving as a military…
Apr 23
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Special Edition: Letters from Robert E. Lee, Junior (April 23, 1862)
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Special Edition: Easter in the Valley (April 20, 1862)
With Nathaniel Bank’s Union forces slowly advancing up the Shenandoah Valley from the north towards Harrisonburg and Luray, Virginia, Thomas J…
Apr 21
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Silent Cavalry: How the Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Burn Atlanta and Then Got Written Out of History by Howell Raines
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Apr 19
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Silent Cavalry: How the Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Burn Atlanta and Then Got Written Out of History by Howell Raines
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Special Edition: The Road to Cinco de Mayo (April 18, 1862)
On April 18, 1862, French General Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez, left Cordoba, Mexico, with approximately 6,000 troops on the road to…
Apr 19
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Special Edition: The Road to Cinco de Mayo (April 18, 1862)
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Special Edition: Lost Opportunities (April 11, 1862)
On April 11, 1862, Henry W. Halleck arrived at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, took command of the combined Armies of the Tennessee and Ohio, and embarked…
Apr 11
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Special Edition: Skirmish at Albuquerque (April 8-9, 1862)
After their defeat at Glorieta, the small Confederate Army of New Mexico retreated to Santa Fe, and then back to Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory (a…
Apr 10
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Special Edition: Mapping the Valley (March 26, 1862)
On March 26, 1862, Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson called Jedediah Hotchkiss, his thirty-four year old volunteer staff aide, for a meeting at his…
Mar 26
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Special Edition: Mapping the Valley (March 26, 1862)
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Special Edition: An Execution in Kansas (March 22, 1862)
On Saturday March 22, 1862, the Leavenworth Daily Conservative reported that Private Alexander Driscoll, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, was executed outside…
Mar 22
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Special Edition: An Execution in Kansas (March 22, 1862)
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Special Edition: The Blalocks, a Civil War Love Story (March 20, 1862)
Approximately 750 women served in the Union and the Confederate armies during the Civil War. However, Sarah Malinda ‘Linda’ Pritchard Blalock is the…
Mar 21
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Special Edition: The Blalocks, a Civil War Love Story (March 20, 1862)
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Special Edition: From the Richmond Daily Dispatch (March 17 - March 22, 1862)
The Richmond Dispatch was originally established in October 1850 (as the Daily Dispatch) by James A. Cowardin and William H. Davis, and was the first…
Mar 18
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Special Edition: From the Richmond Daily Dispatch (March 17 - March 22, 1862)
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