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Lincoln was handed a telegram that lifted his spirits

I hope that the Civil War generation’s optimistic willingness to make the best of hard times is what comes across in Especially for You

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over seventeen thousand Confederates marched more than six hundred miles to defeat four Union armies

The Race Down Chester Street outhouse Lincoln was handed a telegramGeneral Jackson at Front Royal, May 23, 1862 To this day, one of the most heralded campaigns in American military history remains General Thomas "Stonewall" Jacksons Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. One of the most pivotal engagements of that campaign took place in Front Royal, Virginia where Jacksons troops were not only able to divide, but also to rout a much larger Union force. He was then able to push his enemy's withdrawal even further by