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Library of Congress1943

Image 7 of Browning chief (Browning, Mont.), September 10, 1943

Soldier Newspapers Are Important Factors In Keeping Up Morale of Our Fighting Men ill S j G 1 HEAVY TANK 1 VT PRODUCTION i XSS I I XrWr V wwCf 7 V W V7 Ms A _ II By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union THERES an old saying that if two men meet anywhere in the world and one of them is an Englishman the chances are hell suggest they start a club If thats true then its equally true that when any unit of the American army larger than a squad arrives at a new post be it on home or foreign soil one of the first things the soldiers do is to start their own newspaper This seems to apply to the fighting fronts as well for soon after the American forces in Sicily had captured the town of Vittoria a onepage sheet called the Dough boy News made its appearance As a matter of fact the News is a transplanted soldier newspaper It is published by and for the men of the 45th di vision of the United States Sev enth army and it was started while the 45th was in training at Pine

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Library of Congress1917

Image 1 of The City itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.), October 18, 1917

The City Itemizer Si A LEi Editor Devoted to the Interest of the Editor Exclusively11 100 Yees VOLUME 23 WATER VALLEY MISS OCTOBER 18 1917 NUMBER fco The Decay of American Man hood History records nothing so won derful as the development and pro gress of this great nation in the last hundred years Amerioan manhood is deoaying We are going down mentally and morally at a terrifying rate We have foes at home more deadly and destructive than our European enemies Davenport has shown that one in every hundred men is men tally defective insane epileptic habitually criminal or feeble minded Eeoent military examinations have brought out most appaling facts Major Orr a medical omoer of the regular army tells us that two to three out of every four appli cants for the army are rejected as physioally unfit Draft examinations show more than half our young men unfit for military training The examinations of the Life Extension Institute show only one man in a hundred wholly free from disease and physically fit The causes are many Among the most potent and direct are the saloon the brothel and the cigar ette These three evils are the greatest causes

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Library of Congress2023

Battle of Gettysburg : July 1-3, 1863 : the impact of alternative technologies on Civil War history

Gettysburg has been one of the U.S. Army's favorite staff ride locations for decades. It was the site of perhaps the pivotal battle of the U.S. Civil War, and General George Pickett's famous but disastrous charge marked the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. The authors of this report combine a staff ride with a consideration of alternative history: They examine what happened in the crucial 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and consider what could have happened if a few key technologies that were available for military use had been used in this battle.

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Library of Congress1863

Plan of the Battle of Bristoe Station, Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Va., Octr. 14th 1863.

Shows the area of Fairfax County, Va., which was the site of the Battle of Bristoe Station. The map is oriented with Cedar Run to the south, Bristoe to the west and indicates the route of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Also indicated are A. P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, engaging the Union's II Corps during its withdrawal toward Centreville, Va.

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Library of Congress1863

War pictures from the South

Another edition of the same year published in London. "Biographical sketches of generals of the Confederate army" [and of the Federal forces]: p. 335-352. Also available in digital form. LAC tnb 2020-10-27 update (1 card)

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Library of Congress1864

The cruelties of war.

An arraignment of the Union government and armies for their conduct of the war, while defending the Confederates from like charges. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1863

General Washington and General Jackson, on Negro soldiers

"An edition of 10,000 copies of this pamphlet having been placed at the disposal of the United States Sanitary Commission, the agents of the Commission are earnestly requested to give it circulation throughout the Army and Navy." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 replaced by microfilm. LAC scc 2020-03-02 no edits (1 card)

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Library of Congress1913

Hungarians in the American civil war,

Reprinted from "Dongo," tenth anniversary number. "A partial list of Hungarian officers in the Union army during the civil war": p. [52]-61. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress2005

Surviving Andersonville the benefits of social networks in POW camps

"Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties between friends as measured by such identifiers as ethnicity, kinship, and the same hometown the bigger the impact of friends on survival probabilities"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

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Library of Congress1862

Emancipation Proclamation.

Initially, the Civil War between the North and the South was fought by the North to prevent the secession of the South and preserve the Union. Ending slavery was not a goal. That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be free. One hundred days later Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are, and henceforward shall be, free." Lincoln's bold step was a military measure by which he hoped to inspire the slaves in the Confederacy to support the Union cause. Because it was a military measure, the proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, and left slavery untouched in the border states. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery, it did fundamentally transform the character of the war. Henceforth, every advance of Federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and their own freedom.

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