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Tet 68

From Thomas Warner to his wife, Mary Ann Warner - April 29, 1813

War Memoirs Sept. 1916 - May 1917

Germany's High Seas Fleet

Recollections of the Battle for Okinawa

Stalag Luft I, Barth

Admiral Cervera's report of the Battle of Santiago

Normandy Invasion, 6 June 1944

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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

-- Otto Von Bismarck

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Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

The articles published in this Primary Sources Archive are as follows:

1864 - Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi (3573 Reads)
Anaconda Plan (3150 Reads)
Andersonville Prison (3132 Reads)
Battle of Britton's Lane (4116 Reads)
Birth of the Ironclads (2012 Reads)
Black Regiments (2567 Reads)
Brevet promotions (3502 Reads)
Brevet Union Generals of the Civil War (4379 Reads)
Civil War Cannons (2833 Reads)
Civil War Slavery (2190 Reads)
Common Words of the 1860's (28731 Reads)
Confederate Army (2371 Reads)
Confederate Civil War Generals (2592 Reads)
Conscription Act (1826 Reads)
Conspiracy Trial (3360 Reads)
Copperheads (1892 Reads)
Draft Riots (1907 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (2205 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (2095 Reads)
Enrollment Act (1824 Reads)
European Recruits (2024 Reads)
Ewing's Order No 11 (1893 Reads)
General Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 (6330 Reads)
Genesis Of The Confederate Navy (2314 Reads)
Irvin McDowell (1818-1885) (4214 Reads)
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (1494 Reads)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (2343 Reads)
Medical Treatment (2124 Reads)
Organization of the Federal Navy (1676 Reads)
Prisoner Exchange (2942 Reads)
Quantrill Raiders (2411 Reads)
Reconstruction Act (3341 Reads)
Reconstruction Plan (1822 Reads)
Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880) (1752 Reads)
Shenandoah Valley (1807 Reads)
Thanks of Congress (1844 Reads)
The Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February, 1862 (3201 Reads)
The Civil War Sailor's Life (2201 Reads)
The Confederate Cruisers (2537 Reads)
The Union and Confederate Navies (2708 Reads)
U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment (3189 Reads)
Underground Railroad (1987 Reads)
Union Army (1893 Reads)
Union Civil War Generals (2452 Reads)
War Casualties (2021 Reads)

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1863: Confederate President Jefferson Davis names General Joseph Johnston commander of the Army of Tennessee.

1864: The Battle of Nashville concludes with a Union victory.

1904: Japanese warships quit Port Arthur in order to cut off the Russian Baltic fleets advance.

1940: British troops carry out an air raid on Italian Somalia.

1944: The Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to northwestern Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest fought on the Western front.

1950: The U.S. 24th Infantry Division received the Distinguished Unit Citation (now the Presidential Unit Citation) for "extraordinary heroism in combat against a numerically superior enemy." The division, commanded by Major General William F. Dean, by then a prisoner of war, was the first U.S. division to enter the Korean War.

1950: In the wake of the massive Chinese intervention in the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency.

1965: Gen. William Westmoreland, Commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam, sends a request for 243,000 more troops by the end of 1966.

1998: The United States launches a missile attack on Iraq for failing to comply with United Nations weapons inspectors.

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Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

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