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When the Germans fought back at Mortain, the violence pivoted around a patch of high ground and the American artillerymen trapped there. War, as historian Bruce Catton once wrote, sometimes “went by a queer script of its own,” putting a jackboot down on some anonymous, unlikely place like Shiloh Church or Kasserine or Anzio or …
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Tullahoma gets no respectCrucial gains in Tennessee are eclipsed by Vicksburg and Gettysburg in July 1863. Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans was entrenched—literally—in Murfreesboro. The nominal Union victory at… Read MoreWomen on the Warpath “Bread or blood!” The cry rang out across the South in the starving spring of 1863, when a wave of violent food riots, all of them led by women, swept the Confederacy from Mo… Read MoreWhose Patent is It?Masters owned everything their slaves produced—except their inventions. In 1857 Oscar Stuart, a planter and lawyer in Pike County, Miss., wanted to patent an ingenious labor-saving… Read MoreA Wild Tear Across VirginiaStoneman’s Raid tested the mettle of the Union’s newly formed Cavalry Corps. Fighting Joe Hooker—the Army of the Potomac’s third commander in less than two years—spent early 1863 r… Read MoreThe Fall of the House of DixieWhile Southerners found the ideal of independence appealing, at least in theory, the realities of war and want raised second thoughts. In a new book, historian Bruce Levine explain… Read More
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