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Past Articles

USS Princeton CV-37

Battle of Monmouth Courthouse

Civil War Diary, Feb., 1864 to Jan., 1865

The Diary of Bugler Benjamin Edgar Cruzan

The New Guy Who Saved My Life

The Two Women

Letter, E.R. Green, Company A,, Twenty-Third Engineers

My Gulf War Experience

Battle of Santiago

Phan Rang Christmas

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Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

-- Sun Tzu

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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 (3458 Reads)
Anaconda Plan (3035 Reads)
Andersonville Prison (3034 Reads)
Battle of Britton's Lane (3996 Reads)
Birth of the Ironclads (1955 Reads)
Black Regiments (2465 Reads)
Brevet promotions (3371 Reads)
Brevet Union Generals of the Civil War (4246 Reads)
Civil War Cannons (2766 Reads)
Civil War Slavery (2110 Reads)
Common Words of the 1860's (28062 Reads)
Confederate Army (2296 Reads)
Confederate Civil War Generals (2525 Reads)
Conscription Act (1768 Reads)
Conspiracy Trial (3226 Reads)
Copperheads (1828 Reads)
Draft Riots (1829 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (2142 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (2025 Reads)
Enrollment Act (1762 Reads)
European Recruits (1958 Reads)
Ewing's Order No 11 (1833 Reads)
General Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 (6148 Reads)
Genesis Of The Confederate Navy (2237 Reads)
Irvin McDowell (1818-1885) (4098 Reads)
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (1427 Reads)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (2275 Reads)
Medical Treatment (2049 Reads)
Organization of the Federal Navy (1604 Reads)
Prisoner Exchange (2864 Reads)
Quantrill Raiders (2304 Reads)
Reconstruction Act (3224 Reads)
Reconstruction Plan (1760 Reads)
Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880) (1686 Reads)
Shenandoah Valley (1735 Reads)
Thanks of Congress (1788 Reads)
The Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February, 1862 (3139 Reads)
The Civil War Sailor's Life (2132 Reads)
The Confederate Cruisers (2440 Reads)
The Union and Confederate Navies (2591 Reads)
U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment (3125 Reads)
Underground Railroad (1925 Reads)
Union Army (1811 Reads)
Union Civil War Generals (2371 Reads)
War Casualties (1961 Reads)

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This Day in History

1587: In France, Huguenot Henri de Navarre routs Duke de Joyeuses larger Catholic force at Coutras.

1709: Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy take Mons in the Netherlands.

1805: Austrian general Karl Mac surrenders to Napoleons army at the battle of Ulm.

1870: The Summer Palace in Beijing, China, is burnt to the ground by a Franco-British expeditionary force.

1940: German troops reach the approaches to Moscow.

1944: After advancing island by island across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942.

1950: In the first airborne operation of the war, 2,860 paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team jumped between Sukchon and Sunchon, 25 miles north of Pyongyang. Far East Air Force C-119s and C-47s transported the assault force and F-80 and F-51 fighters provided air cover.

1952: The destroyer escort Lewis was hit by shore fire off the West Coast of Korea. Seven sailors were killed and one wounded.

1964: Relations between Cambodia, South Vietnam, and the United States reach a low point as Cambodia becomes a sanctuary for Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces.

480: Greeks defeat the Persians in a naval battle at Salamis.

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Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

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