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Tigers in a blanket …

Not! or at least, not all, not yet. Some more evidence that Confederate government wasn’t supplying enough blankets for its troops in the field. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch December 17, 1863: To the patriotic. –As numbers of the soldiers … Continue reading

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Back at it

And now a corps commander On August 28, 1862, during the Second Battle of Bull Run, Confederate General Richard Ewell’s left leg was “shattered by a Minie ball”. The leg had to be amputated. He convalesced until May 1863 when … Continue reading

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