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He threatened to strike a match, but lawmen called his ‘bluff’. Crime in the 19th-century West wasn’t always as straightforward as outlaws robbing a bank or one man shooting another from ambush. Take the case of one Dong Ng Chang, a Chinese man who in 1898 had been employed at Western Fuse & Explosive Co.in …
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Did the Fall of Vicksburg Really Matter?Ulysses S. Grant’s capture of the Rebel stronghold at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in July 1863, ranks as one of the war’s great military achievements. The culmination of many months’ e… Read MoreCWT Letter from the Editor- August 2011Don’t Call It a Celebration Some Sesquicentennial event planners are asking people to come to “celebrations” of the 150th. And occasionally someone will come up to me and ask how I… Read MoreCollateral Damage: Wilderness Woes for the Widows PermeliaFor two hellish days early in May 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac and the IX Army Corps locked horns with Robert E. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia in the Battle of the… Read MoreInterview with Sam Waterston: The Man Who Played Abraham LincolnSam Waterston, well-known to many for his numerous television and acting credits, starred on TV for 16 years as District Attorney Jack McCoy on Law & Order. An Emmy and Golden … Read MoreThe Winter That Made The Texas BrigadeGreen volunteers were transformed into one of the South’s elite fighting forces in a frigid camp along the Potomac. The fall of 1861 found Charles Schadt far from his home in Galve… Read More
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