66 Pages
Page 6
Editorial
by Roy Morris, Jr.
Page 8
Ordnance
by Robert B. Smith
The quick-firing Henry Rifle spelled trouble for attacking infantry.
Page 10
Personality
by Barry Popchock
German-born artilleryman Hubert Dilger was better known as “Leatherbreeches.”
Page 12
Commands
by Roy Bird
The 2nd Kansas Militia was inexperienced but brave to a fault.
Page 18
Hold The Fort
by David Evans
At Allatoona, Georgia, Union defenders grimly held out against Confederate attackers, all the while waiting for Sherman to arrive.
Page 26
Gallant Charge Repulsed
by Michael J. Klinger
The grayclad Army of Tennessee slowly marched down Winstead Hill toward the horrific fate both sides knew was waiting outside Franklin.
Page 34
Not War, But Murder
by Brian C. Pohanka
The Union soldiers preparing to charge Robert E. Lee’s entrenched Rebels pinned scraps of paper with their names on it to help the gravediggers they knew would need help in identifying their bodies.
Page 42
Stonewall’s Only Defeat
by Lee Enderlin
An absolutely livid General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson shouted for his retreating troops to stand and “give them the bayonet.” But at Kernstown, Virginia, the mighty Jackson tsted his first and only true defeat.
Page 50
Travel
by Dave Page
Although he only lived there a year, U.S. Grant’s spirit pervades Galena, Illinois.
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