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A Journey Into A Frigid Land

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-- General George Patton Jr

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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 (4499 Reads)
Anaconda Plan (4042 Reads)
Andersonville Prison (3882 Reads)
Battle of Britton's Lane (5207 Reads)
Birth of the Ironclads (2590 Reads)
Black Regiments (3438 Reads)
Brevet promotions (4465 Reads)
Brevet Union Generals of the Civil War (5501 Reads)
Civil War Cannons (3454 Reads)
Civil War Slavery (2805 Reads)
Common Words of the 1860's (37082 Reads)
Confederate Army (2946 Reads)
Confederate Civil War Generals (3221 Reads)
Conscription Act (2355 Reads)
Conspiracy Trial (4390 Reads)
Copperheads (2432 Reads)
Draft Riots (2458 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (2748 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (2719 Reads)
Enrollment Act (2362 Reads)
European Recruits (2576 Reads)
Ewing's Order No 11 (2451 Reads)
General Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 (7595 Reads)
Genesis Of The Confederate Navy (2967 Reads)
Irvin McDowell (1818-1885) (5062 Reads)
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (2062 Reads)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (2897 Reads)
Medical Treatment (2689 Reads)
Organization of the Federal Navy (2239 Reads)
Prisoner Exchange (3587 Reads)
Quantrill Raiders (3259 Reads)
Reconstruction Act (4215 Reads)
Reconstruction Plan (2323 Reads)
Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880) (2315 Reads)
Shenandoah Valley (2347 Reads)
Thanks of Congress (2389 Reads)
The Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February, 1862 (3825 Reads)
The Civil War Sailor's Life (2816 Reads)
The Confederate Cruisers (3437 Reads)
The Union and Confederate Navies (3540 Reads)
U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment (3778 Reads)
Underground Railroad (2525 Reads)
Union Army (2466 Reads)
Union Civil War Generals (3239 Reads)
War Casualties (2581 Reads)

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1192: English King Richard I the Lion Hearted was captured in Austria on his return from the Third Crusade.

1745: A Scottish Jacobite army commanded by Lord George Murray routs the Royalist army of General Sir John Cope at Prestonpans.

1863: Union troops defeated at Chickamauga seek refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is then besieged by Confederate troops.

1929: Fighting between China and the Soviet Union breaks out along the Manchurian border.

1936: The German army holds its largest maneuvers since 1914.

1941: The German Army cuts off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union.

1942: The U.S. B-29 Superfortress makes its debut flight in Seattle, Washington. It was the largest bomber used in the war by any nation.

1942: British forces attack the Japanese in Burma.

1944: U.S. troops of the 7th Army, invading Southern France, cross the Meuse River.

1951: Operation SUMMIT, the first helicopter landing of a combat unit in history, took place. It included the airlifting of a reinforced company of Marines and 17,772 pounds of cargo into the Punchbowl area.

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Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

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