Civil War Times Jan.64, Sherman Pilot Knob Emancipation

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Civil War Times Illustrated
Volume 2 Number 9 January 1964
Cover: Portrait of William T. Sherman Now Hangs In The West Point Museum
Contents:
Sherman: Hero or War Criminal
The complex character and sometimes baffling behavior of the general often credited with finishing off the Confederacy...
Lesser-Known Action
Union Heroism At Pilot Knob Saved St. Louis From Attack
Technically this action resulted in a Federal defeat. But the outnumbered Union forces held on long enough to throw the Confederate invasion of Missouri off schedule...
Some Were Mighty Hard To Kill
Proably no one on either side was as seriously wounded as Pvt. W.H. Brown, 18th Iowa Volunteers, and Maj. Snowden Andrews, 1st Maryland Artillery (CSA). Their survival is a testimony to human endurance...
The Second Emancipation Proclamation
An inportant battle for religious freedom was won on July 17, 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed into law a hard-fought Congressional bill recognizing Jewish chaplains in the Union Army...
'The Burial Of Latane' And How It Moved Southern Hearts
A painting executed in 1864 has immortalized the death and burial of an obscure Virginia cavalry officer...
An Eyewitness To History
The first Confederate death...the firing on Ft. Sumpter...Fairfax Court House, one of the first skirmishes of the war...and one of the last meetings of the Confederate Cabinet - Thes were the recollections of John Lauren McBride...
The 18th Indinia Battery Fights On From Hoover's Gap to Chattanooga
Part 2 of a fascinating diary kept by a teen-aged bugler for an Indiana battery during a large part of the war in the west...
Weapons and Equipment
Both sides used Torpedoes widely...
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