Thunderbolt to the Rebels: The United States Sharpshooters in the Civil War porcelain Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith

Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith

Beverton examines Mexico’s place in the US imagination during the Civil War and postbellum period

the fall of New Orleans and the advance of federal armies up the Virginia Peninsula

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Thunderbolt to the Rebels: The United States Sharpshooters in the Civil War porcelain Abraham Lincoln's Political Faithby Darin Wipperman Sharpshooters were the elite of the Union army. Clad in green uniforms and equipped with the eras latest rifles and scopes, they took up positions out in front of the infantry, where they targeted Confederate officers or skirmished with enemy soldiers. However they were used, sharpshooters formed an important presence on battlefields throughout the Civil War, and yet most accounts have tended to focus on their distinctive uniforms