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A witness to the carnage of a Crimean War battle founds the Red Cross. Sometime during the sweltering day of June 24, 1859, Jean Henri Dunant inadvertently stumbled into the crevasse of horror created by one of the great battles of the Second Italian War of Independence. Early that morning, two titanic armies—one French and …
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Sherman Closes In: The Fiery Commander Captures AtlantaWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was finally perched where he wanted and could best operate by the spring of 1864. He had been promoted to brigadier general of Regulars and even better, he… Read MoreA Monumental Lie: The Statue at ‘Bloody Angle’Some Gettysburg veterans cried foul when the 72nd Pennsylvania placed its statue at the ‘Bloody Angle’. West of Hancock Avenue, just north of the Copse of Trees that marks the High… Read MoreTime to Thaw Out- Civil War Times June 2014Ice, snow and freezing temperatures assailed the Civil War Times offices in Leesburg, Va., this past winter, costing us a couple of days of work during the production of this issue… Read MoreHigh Seas and High StakesWould the North recognize Confederate privateers as agents of a sovereign state, or hang them from the yardarm as pirates? AMONG THE PRESSING PROBLEMS federate States of America fa… Read MoreJoshua Chamberlain at PetersburgThe Union colonel’s own clouded hindsight has led to confusion about his 1864 heroics. June 18, 1864 was not a good day for the Army of the Potomac. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. G… Read More
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