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Rescue of Dustoff 65

Prison Camp

Charles P. Kindleberger's Account of the Battle of Manila, 1898

16th Tennessee Infantry

USS KRISHNA (ARL-38), July 5, 1970

A Year To Kill

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From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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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 (2911 Reads)
Anaconda Plan (2474 Reads)
Andersonville Prison (2540 Reads)
Battle of Britton's Lane (3297 Reads)
Birth of the Ironclads (1718 Reads)
Black Regiments (1801 Reads)
Brevet promotions (2754 Reads)
Brevet Union Generals of the Civil War (3467 Reads)
Civil War Cannons (2485 Reads)
Civil War Slavery (1882 Reads)
Common Words of the 1860's (23128 Reads)
Confederate Army (2056 Reads)
Confederate Civil War Generals (2258 Reads)
Conscription Act (1572 Reads)
Conspiracy Trial (2426 Reads)
Copperheads (1615 Reads)
Draft Riots (1611 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (1912 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (1730 Reads)
Enrollment Act (1573 Reads)
European Recruits (1743 Reads)
Ewing's Order No 11 (1627 Reads)
General Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 (5069 Reads)
Genesis Of The Confederate Navy (1962 Reads)
Irvin McDowell (1818-1885) (3558 Reads)
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (1169 Reads)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (2053 Reads)
Medical Treatment (1797 Reads)
Organization of the Federal Navy (1379 Reads)
Prisoner Exchange (2587 Reads)
Quantrill Raiders (1788 Reads)
Reconstruction Act (2650 Reads)
Reconstruction Plan (1587 Reads)
Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880) (1477 Reads)
Shenandoah Valley (1545 Reads)
Thanks of Congress (1591 Reads)
The Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February, 1862 (2830 Reads)
The Civil War Sailor's Life (1894 Reads)
The Confederate Cruisers (1943 Reads)
The Union and Confederate Navies (2063 Reads)
U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment (2889 Reads)
Underground Railroad (1716 Reads)
Union Army (1594 Reads)
Union Civil War Generals (2023 Reads)
War Casualties (1739 Reads)

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1862: The first day of the Seven Days campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia.

1864: Pennsylvania troops begin digging a tunnel toward the Rebels at Petersburg, Virginia, in order to blow a hole in the Confederate lines and break the stalemate.

1876: Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeat Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

1920: The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.

1941: Finland declares war on the Soviet Union.

1942: Following his arrival in London, Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe.

1948: The Soviet Union tightens its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.

1950: The North Korean Peoples Army (NKPA) crossed the 38th Parallel at 0500 hours with 60,000 troops to launch an all-out offensive on the Republic of Korea. The United Nations Security Council, in the absence of the Soviet Union, adopted a resolution calling for the withdrawal of North Korean forces to the parallel.

1969: The U.S. Navy turns 64 river patrol gunboats valued at $18.2 million over to the South Vietnamese Navy in what is described as the largest single transfer of military equipment in the war thus far.

841: Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay.

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Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

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