Feeding Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (Michael C. Hardy - CA) kid By the time the fighting

By the time the fighting ended

156 captured Yankee officers and enlisted men were sent to the island

The Mobile & Ohio Railroad was the longest line in the nation when it was completed in spring of 1861--the final spike driven a few weeks after Confederate artillery shelled Fort Sumter

Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms

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Feeding Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (Michael C. Hardy - CA) kid By the time the fightingby Michael C. Hardy Explores the critical role of food and logistics in sustaining Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Carlton McCarthy, a former artilleryman with the Richmond Howitzers, noted after the war that historians would only write about big battles and campaigns, not how the common soldier fried his bacon and baked his biscuits. McCarthy was correct. Save for a few scattered references in a handful of books, no one has documented how