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mereinkling.net
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| | | | | The Fifth Iowa Regimental Site is grateful to Jeff Daniels for the history below, to which he retains the copyright. Jeff is the great great grandson of Corporal Sherman Thomas Kirk, a veteran of both the Fifth Iowa Infantry and the Fifth Iowa Cavalry. Jeff is a civilian analyst at the Training and Doctrine Command... | |
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thecivilwarcenter.org
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| | | | | One of my all-time favorite movies is Ron Maxwell's 1993 epic Gettysburg, a historical masterpiece that focuses on the events of the Battle of Gettysburg from the perspectives of four of its key players on opposing sides: Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, and John Buford. Filmed on location at Gettysburg National Military... | |
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jimbovard.com
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| | | | | 163 years ago, Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson routed Yankee soldiers in Front Royal VA commanded by my great-great uncle, Col. John Kenly | |
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gadling.com
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| | | The Civil War started early in Missouri. In 1854 fighting flared up over whether the neighboring Kansas Territory would become a slave state. Pro-slavery Missourians raided Kansas to kill and intimidate abolitionists, and Kansans raided Missouri, killing slave owners and liberating slaves. When the first official shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861, Missouri was already prepared for an all-out fight, yet nobody knew which side it would take. While Missouri's legislature and much of its population supported the South, its large German-American population and many of its cities and towns were Unionist. The Confederates made the first move. The secessionist State Guard camped on the edge of St. Louis, supposedly for ... | ||
