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200 years ago today: British Gen. Edward Pakenham ordered an
200 years ago today: British Gen. Edward Pakenham ordered an assault against Gen. Andrew Jacksons position, dubbed Line Jackson, on the Rodriguez Cana...
150 years ago today: Emma Florence LeConte of Columbia, S.C.
150 years ago today: Emma Florence LeConte of Columbia, S.C. included in her diary: Father said the Yanks made a clean sweep of everything [around Sav...
150 years ago today: Union forces under Gen. George Thomas
150 years ago today: Union forces under Gen. George Thomas attacked Confederate positions of Gen. John Bell Hood at Nashville. The battle plan called ...
150 years ago today: Abraham Lincoln was re-elected. No country
150 years ago today: Abraham Lincoln was re-elected. No country had previously held elections during a military emergency. Lincoln said, We can not ha...
200 years ago today: Attempting to deprive the British of their
200 years ago today: Attempting to deprive the British of their chief source of flour, Gen. George Izard had sent a brigade of about 1,200 men, consis...
150 years ago today: Louis Léon of the 53rd North Carolina
150 years ago today: Louis Léon of the 53rd North Carolina Infantry, currently a POW, wrote in his diary: We are guarded by negro troops, who are as ...
150 years ago today: Sgt. David L. Day of the 25th Massachusetts
150 years ago today: Sgt. David L. Day of the 25th Massachusetts wrote: "A few days ago orders came to get ready for inspection the next afternoon. . ...
Pull quote: [T]here is more than enough solid evidence now to
Pull quote: [T]here is more than enough solid evidence now to demonstrate to any neutral party prepared to cast half an eye over it that the doomsday ...
200 years ago today: Last evening, American Gen. Wade Hampton sent
200 years ago today: Last evening, American Gen. Wade Hampton sent Col. Robt. Purdy and 1,000 men into the thick woods on the south shore of the Chât...
150 years ago today: The grand jury of Twiggs County, Georgia
150 years ago today: The grand jury of Twiggs County, Georgia requested the court to order a record, called the “Black Roll,” in which the names o...

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