Civil War Times May 1994 Navy Mississippi Southern Girls Guns Knoxville

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Civil War Times Illustrated
Volume 33 Number 2 May 1994
Contents:
Navy Life On The Mississippi
- A Young Navy Recruit Was Sent To The Great River For Training And The Adventure Of His Life. His Memoir Of Fighting Aboard The USS Cincinnati Explains Something Of War In Arkansas and Recounts A Battle Now Almost Forgotten - The Fight For Fort Hindman
The City Of Brotherly Hospitality
- A Tale Of Civil War Era Charity In The City of Brotherly Love: Philadelphia's Citizens and Businessmen Pooled Their Time and Money To Help Tired and Hungry Soldiers Far From Home.
Charge Bayonets
- One Day The Flashy 5th New York Infantry - A Zouave Regiment Known For Excellence On The Parade Ground - Found Thai It Was All That Stood Between The Union Army and Disaster. At The Battle of Gaines Mill, The Men Of The 5th Proved They Were More Than Showpieces; They Were Soldiers Who Knew The Ugly Business Of Using The Bayonet, Soldiers Who Knew How To Act Like Heroes.
Samaritan Or Charlatan?
The Government Took Back Dr. Mary Walker's Medal of Honor. Did This Civil War Surgeon Lose The Honor Because She Was Less Than Deserving, Or Because She Was A Social Gadfly? A Distinguished Historian Sifts Through Facts and Legends, Looking For An Answer.
Southern Girls With Guns
- No Men Of Fighting Age Were Left In LaGrange, Georgia. The Women Of The Town Picked Up Muskets And Drilled For Years, Saying They Were Prepared To Defend Their Homes. Then Came Their Showdown With A Yankee Army.
Was Lincoln The Great Emancipator?
- Long Ago, Black Americans Thought Of Abraham Lincoln As The Kindly President Who Feed The Slaves. Today, Many Say Kindness Had Nothing To Do With It - That It Was Merely A Cold, Calculated Political Move. One Commentator Takes Up The Debate.
Knoxville's Civil War History Survives
- General Longstreet Slept Here. Or Was It Here? A Guide To Touring The Hidden Civil War Era Homes and Forts of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Departments:
Mail Call - Behind The Lines - 125 Years Ago - Time Lapse
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