A teenager when he rode off to join Confederate guerrillas in 1864, Jesse James never really stopped fighting the Civil War. Unable to accept the defeat of the secessionist cause, Jesse trained his ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A small memorial to the Simpsonville massacre has been set up near the site of the possible mass ...
Brown University professor Megan Kate Nelson teaches a class about guerilla warfare, which is largely characterized by its tactics, including ambushes and surprise raids on unsuspecting troops and ...
On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led a group of 300 Confederate guerrillas and attacked Lawrence at dawn. On his orders, they aimed to kill “every man big enough to carry a gun.” Raiders killed ...
Have you discovered that an ancestor was a member of a home guard or a state guard during the Civil War? What does that mean? Was he a Union sympathizer or a Confederate sympathizer? Did he fight in ...
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 300. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $26.95 paper. ISBN: 1469665271 Retaliation as an Instrument of War In this book Prof. Foote ...
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