Kamis, 09 November 2017

Competing Loyalties

David Twiggs had to make an agonizing choice: the U.S. Army or the South. In the days before the Civil War, loyalties in the military were severely tested. The concept of union was still fairly new, and the pull of states’ rights among Southern soldiers was strong. Men’s careers and reputations hung in the balance—as …

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