Civil War Times May 1967 Sheridan Winchester Curtin POW Boat Escape Lincoln

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Civil War Times Illustrated
Volume 6 Number 2 May 1967
Contents:
Feature Articles:
5
Sheridan Wins at Winchester
With the 1864 elections approaching, Lincoln desperately needed a victory in the East to stay in office. Sheridan gave it to him at the Battle of Winchester.
13
Andrew Gregg Curtin - a Profile
As wartime governor of Pennsylvania, he kept the tremendous resources of the Keystone State working for a Union victory.
22
Anesthesia in the Civil War
The use of ether and chloroform as anesthetics was accepted by many American doctors by 1861. Without them, the war would have been "hell" indeed for thousands of wounded Union and Confederate soldiers.
28
Draft Dodgers and Bounty Jumpers
Fit men feigned illness to avoid the draft. Cripples and chronically ill men masked their defects to collect recruiting bounties. No wonder medical examiners for Federal armies became cynical.
37
New Find: A Bayonet for Digging
Weapons and Equipment
38
A New Photograph of Mrs. Lincoln?
Mary Lincoln or Mrs. Heintzelman?
45
Escape from a P.O.W. Boat - McDonald Memoir Part III
We knew we could overpower the guard and seize the boat.
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