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Do the numbers add up for 'Marse Robert'?(BLUE & GRAY)(General Robert E. Lee's military strategy)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 1587 words; ...OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The harshest critiques of Lee as a bloody commander came in the late 20th century. Thomas L. Connelly's The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society (1977) and more especially Alan T. Nolan...

'Mimic War' no more: 'Little Phil' and 'Old Jube' get serious.(Battle of Charles Town)(Event overview)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 4030 words; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For the footsore soldiers of the First Vermont Brigade, the morning of August 21, 1864, was a heaven-sent opportunity to rest, wash, write letters home and attend divine services. After being yanked from the trenches at Petersburg six weeks earlier, they and the rest of the

Lee's last hurrah: five years after the war, the beloved former general set out on a sentimental journey through the Southland.(General Robert E. Lee)(Cover story)(Biography)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 3615 words; ...was icily formal. Leaving with Mosby, Pickett muttered, "He had my division slaughtered at Gettysburg." "Well," Mosby replied, "it made you immortal." But another encounter proved quite fortunate. When James L. Corley, once Lee's

Guerrilla war on the high seas: confederate privateers and commerce raiders made life risky for Union shippers.(Reprint)
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 3424 words; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At 5 p.m. on September 4, 1862, U.S. Navy Commander George Preble, the senior officer of the blockading squadron off Mobile, Alabama, spotted a strange sail approaching from the southeast. It was flying the British Union Jack, but that meant little, since flying false colors

'To rise again': the Monitor Center seeks to define the legacy of a Civil War site beneath the ocean's waves.
Civil War Times; 2/1/2010; 1646 words; ...Accounting Command. Also recovered were personal belongings of some of the crew, including silverware with the initials S.A.L., which has been traced to officer Samuel Augee Lewis. Alberg estimates that to date about 80 percent of the ironclad remains...