The bulk of the fighting had taken place on 3 June, when Grant ordered that the fortifications of Confederate General Robert E
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The American Civil War ended more than a century and a half ago. But the last person to receive a pension tied
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Anderson, an American history professor who has taught about the war for 20 years – ‘a Southerner teaching in South Carolina’, he
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Filled with iron nails, the bottle was initially thought to have been placed there for storage. But Oliver Mueller-Heubach and Robert Hunter,
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Thomas Morris Chester is a name little-known in most households. But Chester was a remarkable pioneer.
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The American Civil War might easily have ended in 1862. In the event, it dragged on for three more years, claiming the
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The American Military: a concise history is an essential introduction to the development of the US army. From the landing of the
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Grant’s conduct of the Overland Campaign has sometimes been criticised as bludgeoning – lacking in tactical finesse, restricted to frontal attacks, callous
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What is the role of the individual in history? The collaboration between Robert E Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson changed the course
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Patrick Boniface analyses the expansion and transformation of the US Navy during the American Civil War. ‘Give me six hours to chop
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