Civil War Times Magazine Dec.70 Jubal Early General Frazer Herding Beef Union

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Civil War Times Illustrated
Volume 9 Number 8 December 1970
Contents:
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Jubilee: General Jubal A. Early
James Longstreet rated him as the weakest general officer in Lee's army, while others regarded him as second only to "Stonewall." He swore, drank, and criticised viciously, but everyone admitted that he was a fighter. Indeed, this cranky old man fought the Civil War from 1861 to 1894. Only death took him out of action.
12
The Dark and the Light Side of the River War
A fresh-water sailor tells of (1) a tragedy caused by a pierced boiler and (2) the fun of a wedding aboard his ship.
20
Justice for General Frazer
The surrender of Cumberland Gap to Ambrose Burnside in late 1863 cost the Confederacy its most important link of communications. It also unfairly cost a general his reputation.
28
Herding Beef for the Union Army
An unpublished memoir of service with the Army of the Potomac, by its commissary in charge of fresh meat.
40
The Destruction of "the Crisis"
Being a first-person account of how a "church party" of angry cavalrymen wrecked the office of a Copperhead newspaper in Ohio.
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