In early September 1864, the war was not going well for the North. Lincoln had staked the Republican Party’s political future on military victory over the Confederacy, yet Confederate General Jubal Early’s army had nearly marched on Washington. Another military failure on the battlefield would be disastrous for Lincoln.
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Throughout 1863 and 1864, Confederate guerrilla leader John Singleton Mosby and his intrepid Rangers, “the South’s most dangerous men” terrorized the Northern troops in the area surrounding the Shenandoah Valley, known as “Mosby’s Confederacy.”
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Modern conflicts are increasingly fought less on traditional battlefields and more through irregular warfare like disrupting supply chains, conducting psych ops, and other strategic maneuvers—including timing attacks with an eye toward media coverage and upcoming elections.
Next week Americans will celebrate the founding of our country, but most probably don’t realize how close one hundred and sixty years ago in July 1864 America came to being permanently torn apart.
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A crucial piece of intelligence can turn the tide of an entire battle or even a war. During the Civil War before the Third Battle of Winchester, that intelligence was obtained from two of the most unlikely of sources—a school teacher and a slave.
World War II veteran Bill Pool is the only still-living son of a Civil War soldier. His father, Charles Parker Pool, was born in 1844.
On April 18, 1864, author Herman Melville rode through the twilight, embedded with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, on a scouting mission deep in enemy territory.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Saturday Show” that former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on “revenge” was so divisive she is worried it could start a civil war.
Confederate guerrilla leader John Singleton Mosby continually urged his Rangers to “get the bulge” on their opponents by attacking first, using the element of surprise to swiftly and violently make the most of their small numbers to subdue their opponents.
Confederate guerilla leader John Singleton Mosby and his intrepid Rangers are known for their incredibly daring feats, but they weren’t always successful. One chilly night in the winter of 1864, the Union calvary met the Confederates’ surprise raid with a bloody defeat.
Each of my thirteen books has found me. The spark for my latest bestseller ignited when I stumbled across a roadside sign in Northern Virginia marking John Singleton Mosby’s Grapewood Farm engagement.
Mosby himself seemed to have a vampire-like ability to rise from the dead, being severely wounded a handful of times, but always staving off death and capture.
Ballot fraud occurred one hundred and sixty years ago in the presidential election of 1864, when absentee ballots were allowed for the first time because of the massive number of Union soldiers in the field and away from their home states.
A lonely roadside sign stands by a winding Virginia country byway marking the site Union Jessie Scout Jack Sterry, also known as Lincoln’s Special Forces, spoke his last words. Through his cunning, he tried to lead the Confederate army down the wrong road, away from where it was crucially needed.
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This is a bad movie undermined by an unforgivably lazy script.
Special operations forces require special men. Union major Henry Harrison Young was such a man—born for war.
Kirsten Dunst, who stars in the upcoming movie “Civil War,” is no fan of the news media, saying it is a “big time” driver of division in America.
The Union Army had one of their best chances to capture and destroy Mosby’s Rangers, the comparatively small elite unit, at that time, of Confederate guerilla warriors terrorizing Federal troops in Northern Virginia.
Alex Garland, the British director of the upcoming A24 movie “Civil War,” has a few choice words for anyone who believes in the concept of American exceptionalism.
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John Singleton Mosby, one of the main characters of this story, 161 years ago this week conducted what is considered the perfect special operation.
Indie studio A24 is preparing an April release of its provocative film “Civil War” and the movie is already provoking fierce debate from all sides of the political spectrum even as details on its plot are still sparse.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded in the affirmative to radio host and author Charlamagne tha God when he asked if she felt “stupid” after she failed to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War in December.
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing criticism from her primary opponents and other prominent conservatives after she was asked what caused the Civil War in the United States and failed to mention slavery in her word salad response at an event in New Hampshire Wednesday night.
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday blamed a “Democrat plant” for a question about what caused the Civil War. The presidential candidate neglected to include “slavery” in her list of reasons.
Nikki Haley has come under fire for issuing a word-salad response when asked why America fought in the Civil War.
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