Civil War Times July 1994 Ball's Bluff Potomac Gunboat Chase Pickett Iuka Battle

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Civil War Times Illustrated
Volume 33 Number 3 July 1994
Contents:
Ball's Bluff Above The Potomac
- Loudoun Is One Of Virginia's Finest Counties. It's Also The Site Of One Of The Union Army's First Great Calamaties and One Of The Nation's Best-Preserved Civil War Landmarks. We Tell You How To Find Its Ball's Bluff Battlefield and What You'll See There
Sherman Talks Strategy
- In 1864, Union Major William T. Sherman's Torch-Bearing Army Spared Augusta, Georgia. Years Later, In A letter To A Newspaper Editor, He Explains Why
The Great Gunboat Chase
- Lee Had Already Surrendered When Confederate Swashbuckler Charles Read Took Command Of The Last Armed Rebel Navy Vessel On The Mississippi River and Decided To Make A Run For It. If He Could Evade Capture And Make It Out To sea, He Could Carry On The War.
Stopping Builders At Brandy Station
- The Plan Is Still In Place To Construct An Auto Racetrack On The Old Civil War Battlefield At Brandy Station, Virginia. But Preservationists Have Other Ideas and Local Politicians Are Suffering Outrage and Headaches.
Pickett:
Another Look - There Was More To Him Than You May Have Known. George Pickett, The Confederate General Remembered For The Battle Of Gettysburg and "Pickett's Charge," Knew Personal and Professional Disaster and May Have Been One Of Lee's Shakiest Officers.
A Fierce Little Fight
- It Was Not The Largest Military Struggle In Mississippi History, But The Battle Of Iuka May Have Been Among The Toughest. The Story Of This Fight Between Major General Sterling Price's Troops and Elements Of U.S. Grant's Army Has Impressed Historians For A Generation and Is Counted As One Of The war's Most Interesting Undecided Contests.
Departments:
Mail Call - Behind The Lines - 130 Years Ago - Time Lapse
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