America's Civil War Sept.95 Rebel Ironclad Irish Brigade Howitzer Southern Rails

Description: America's Civil War September 1995 Contents: Ironclad Assault At Trent's Reach Once he had cleared the obstructions from its path, Confederate commander John K. Mitchell hoped that his James River Squadron could move on to devestate the Union supply depot at City Point, Va. But the tide turned against him...literally... Limbs Made And Unmade By War During the Civil War, the production of prosthetic limbs for thousands of amputees became, as phyician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, a great and active branch of homegrown American industry... Wrecking On The Railroad In January 1864, while Lt.Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and Rebel guerrillas harried his supply lines, Maj.Gen. Eilliam T. sherman launched a campaign to destroy Mississippi's logistic lifelines... Meagher Of The Sword Described in his youth as "truculent, noisy, brash,verbose and belligerent", Thomas F. Meagher turned those unflattering traits into assets as commander of the Union army's famed Irish Brigade... Personality Breton-born Paul Francois de Gournay was one of the Confederate officers behind the deadly guns of Port Hudson. Ordnance "No gun is so well suited in all respects to the wants of cavalry" said Rebel Brig.Gen. Basil Drake of mountain howitzers... Commands The 14th Kentucky Cavalry fought no major battles, but skirmished in the mountains of its native state... Travel A bloody route that took General Ulysses S.Grant almost a year to travel can now be covered in four days... Shop Madeldetailer / Historylives for America's Civil War, Civil War Times, North & South, Blue & Gray s plus other issues & items of interest....You always save with combined shipping!!!

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