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America's Civil War

May 1998

Contents:

• Stoneman's Failed offer For Glory
• During a cavalry raid near Atlanta in July 1864, Maj.Gen. George Stoneman hoped to liberate 24,500 Union prisoners suffering under wretched conditions at the Andersonville and Macon prisons. But in an ironic twist, Stoneman and his troops would end up being confined in the very prisons they had hoped to liberate...
• Sooy Smith And 'That Devil Forrest'
• "Vigorous war means universal destruction," said Maj. Gen. William Tecumsch Sherman, who set out in February 1864 on a punitive expedition through central Mississippi and Alabama. His cavalry chief, Maj.Gen. William Sooy Smith, was given the daunting task of fending off Maj.Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest...
• John Hunt Morgan's Ill-Fated Raid
• As the infamous Rebel raider burned and pillaged his way across Ohio in July 1863, New Lisbon residents formed a militia to defend their town. The militiamen not only saved their homes, they accomplished an unimaginable feat - capturing the elusive Morgan...
• J.E.B. Stuart: Gettysburg Scapegoat!
• "Well, General Stuart, here you are at last," General Robert E. Lee reportedly said when his cavalry commander finally reached Gettysburg. Did Stuart's delayed arrival deny the Confederates victory in a pivotal battle of the war? Or were others equally-if not more-responsible for the defeat?...
• Personality
• The killing of 21 year old Lieutenant John Rodgers Meigs, a Union engineer, prompted a burning rampage...
• Ordnance
• By the end of the war, most cavalrymen had little use for their sabers...
• Commands
• Retreating from Gettysburg, Company B of the 1st Maryland Cavalry faced an entire Union division at Monterey Gap
• Eyewitness To War
• "Our Generals, not the enemy's, have defeated us," wrote Union Colonel Thornton F. Broadhead from his deathbed...

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