Civil War Quarterly Magazine Early Winter 2013 Edizione posteriore

Weapons-Fieldwords as a defense against the enemy; Death in the deep woods at Horshoe Ridge; Newly Organized from the famous 2nd US Cavalry from the Western frontier, the 5th US Cavalry performed a hard duty at Gaines Mill; Confederate Gunboats under “Prince John” Magruder fought for the vital port of Galveston; Shoddy Union Contractors supplied troops with inferior equipment; Union Disaster at Thompson Station; The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond to liberate Union prisoners of war; USS Carondelet and the Western Gunboat Flotilla pound away at the Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi river; Miracle at Missionary ridge; The South’s famous Orphan Brigade