All posts tagged "Antietam"
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16.7KbostonLincoln’s Bixby Letter, The Inspiration for Saving Private Ryan
In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, Gen. George Marshall reads a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a Boston widow who...
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11.5K19MassachusettsTouched With Fire – Oliver Wendell Holmes and America’s Deadliest Day
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., left Boston in 1861 an ideological foot soldier for the Union Army. He returned from the war –...
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16.4KPolitics and MilitaryAmbrose Burnside, The Sideburned Civil War Commander Who Didn’t Want The Job
When Ambrose Burnside received his orders to take command of the Army of the Potomac in November of 1862, it was said...
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10.1K2New HampshireCol. Edward Cross Leads the Fifth New Hampshire ‘Raging Like a Lion’
Tough, hard-fighting Col. Edward Cross wore a red bandanna on his head when he led the men of the Fifth New Hampshire...
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