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The Historic Traveler Archives A Collection of Great Writing That Takes You There
"Beyond Gettysburg" Exploring the Towns Surrounding the Infamous Battleground "The Death and Life of Stonewall Jackson" Shot by his own troops, Confederate General Sonewall Jackson died in May 1863. In Virginia, his legend lives on. "Essential Gettysburg" Tracking Down the Past "First Manassas" Virginia's Manassas Battlefield Recalls the First Major Battle of a Long and Bloody Conflict—and the Birth of a Legend "Fredericksburg" A Soldier's Tour of a Virginia Town "The General Lew Wallace Study and Ben Hur Museum" "The Gibraltar of the Confederacy" The North and South both believed that controlling Vicksburg was vital to the war effort. Visitors to the city today can see why. "The High Ground" Chattanooga's Lookout Mountain provides a dramatic setting for the Civil War's Battle Above the Clouds. "A Meeting at Shiloh" The Civil War was almost a year old when Union and Confederate armies clashed in Tennessee. The result was a bloody preview of the years to come. "On the Track of Assassin John Wilkes Booth" A Washington, D.C.-area crime-and-history tour. "With Lee to Appomattox" It's an easy ride today from Petersburg to Appomattox Court house, but for Robert E. Lee and the arm of northern Virginia in 1865, it was a weary journey toward defeat.
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