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A rich mouth and a loudmouth sparked reckless gunplay that seemed to involve nearly every man in Ballarat, California, and resulted in the wounding of two deputy sheriffs —two-thirds of the town’s entire sober population. The fusillade of bullets bored more holes in adobe and wood walls than in the human flesh for which it …
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Mapping Out a Total War StrategyIf you plan to shut down Atlanta and march to the sea, it helps to know how to get there. William Tecumseh Sherman looked south from the Tennessee heights of Lookout Mountain with … Read MoreParcel post to freedomHenry Brown took the extraordinary step of mailing himself to Philly. The baggage handlers ignored the “This Side Up With Care” label and rudely shoved the wooden box onto the stea… Read MoreUnfriendly Fire for James LongstreetA Confederate bullet strikes James Longstreet and derails a Wilderness victory. The Confederate flank attack had worked to perfection May 6, 1864, the second day of the Battle of t… Read MoreACW Book Review: Heroes and CowardsHeroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War by Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn, Princeton University Press, 2008, $27.95 A Civil War book full of charts, graphs and tables, even w… Read MoreMurder with a vengeanceJohn Yates Beall, John Wilkes Booth and the killing of a president. After John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Abraham Lincoln, theories—many born of hysteria— swept the nat… Read More
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