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The Petersburg Campaign

Petersburg Campaign | Dimmock Line | Bermuda Hundred Campaign | Petersburg (Weldon) Railroad | South…

The Home Front: North and South

The Civil War changed the lives of civilians as well as those of soldiers.

Picketing, Skirmishing, and Sharpshooting

The security of an army depended on its pickets – the sentinels who provided early warning of infiltration…

Antebellum Military Education of Civil War Leaders

On both sides two thirds of leaders with the rank of major general or higher came from the old regular…

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