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LIBRARY OF CONGRESSThe Southern press held J.E.B. Stuart accountable for being caught off guard at the Battle of Brandy Station. The battle served as a warning that the Union cavalry was getting better.

The battle of Brandy Station 'made the Federal cavalry'

By the second year of the Civil War, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry was already legendary thanks to its daring deeds. In June 1863, Stuart was caught off guard by an improving Union cavalry at Brandy Station. The ensuing daylong battle proved the talent gap was closing between Stuart and his northern foe.

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Black Brigade gets baptism by fire

After the Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass and other Abolitionists pressured the Lincoln administration to form black regiments. The 1st Mississippi Infantry, 9th Louisiana Infantry and 11th Louisiana Infantry of African Descent were composed of former slaves learning how to become ...
MILITARY

150 years ago, a brief Civil War truce for burial

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. -- For a brief time during the Civil War, hostilities at St. Francisville stilled while Masons from the Union Navy and Confederate Army buried one of their own -- a 38-year-old Union gunboat commander who shot himself.
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Lee marches north

Even after the victory at Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee felt the Confederate army could not rest on its laurels. Instead, Lee began plans for another northern invasion. This time, the South would march farther north into Pennsylvania.
CIVIL WAR STORIES

Big weekend at Beauvoir

Beauvoir will open the doors to its $11.5 million presidential library at 10 a.m. Monday and the museum that was the last home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis has events scheduled throughout the weekend to celebrate the milestone.
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'Mississippians don't know and refuse to learn how to surrender'

In May 1862, Adm. David Farragut made the first attempt to capture Vicksburg. Farragut sent an envoy asking the town to surrender. Col. James Autrey, military governor of Vicksburg, sent Farragut a defiant reply, "Mississippians don't know and refuse to learn how to surrender."