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During the Civil War, few men had seen camels on the battlefield. But one Mississippi infantry marched into battle with Old Douglas, who served with the Bloody 43rd and died in the Siege of Vicksburg. The regiment became known as the Camel Regiment, and its soldiers carried memories of Old Douglas through the end of the war and until the end of their own lives. They went on to fight in fourteen battles, including Corinth, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville before they surrendered at war's end. Author W. Scott Bell's fascination with the Camel Regiment began because his great-great-grandfather fought with them.
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This is a really neat set of 20 vintage postcards from the Civil War Classic Collection, issued 6/29/95. There are four different scenes depicted - 1.) Attack upon Roanoke Island - Landing of the troops (stamps include Jefferson Davis, David Farragut, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass & Raphael Semmes) 2.) Battle of Lookout Mountain (stamps include Stonewall Jackson, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Phoebe Pember & William T. Sherman) 3.) The Attack of Fort Sumter (stamps include Stand Watie, Mary Chesnut, Joseph E. Johnston, Harriet Tubman & Winfield Hancock) 4.) Attack of the "Monitor" on the "Merrimack" (stamps include Robert E. Lee, Shiloh, Monitor/Virginia, Clara Barton & Ulysses S. Grant). Great condition!
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Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January, 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval that devastated the wartime South. Now published in its entirety for the first time, Sarah Morgan's classic account brings the Civil War and the Old South to life with all the freshness and immediacy of great literature.