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America's Civil War Todd S. Berkoff	Bloody Baptism for the Black Hats John Gibbon's mostly green Midwestern troops found themselves in quite a scrape as the sun set on August 28, 1862. His Black Hat Brigade would never forget their baptism of fire at Brawner's Farm.
America's Civil War July 19, 2004 William Preston Mangum II	Kill Cavalry's Nasty Surprise Union General William Sherman considered Judson Kilpatrick, his cavalry chief, 'a hell of a damn fool.' At Monroe's Cross Roads, N.C., his carelessness and disobedience of orders proved Sherman's point.
America's Civil War July 19, 2004 William C. Lowe	Big Gun Bombardment of Port Royal As Union warships steamed past the Confederate defenses near Port Royal, Flag Officer Samuel Du Pont proudly noted that army officers aboard his ship looked on 'with wonder and admiration.' A revolution in naval tactics had begun.
America's Civil War July 19, 2004 Julie Holcomb	Eyewitness to War: Iron Brigade Soldier's Wartime Letters Timothy Webster survived Fredericksburg and Gettysburg with the Iron Brigade, but not Petersburg.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Brian Bremner	Akio Morita: Mr. Consumer Electronics Sony's genius, Akio Morita, ushered in the portable transistor radio, the Walkman, and the CD.
Science News July 17, 2004	From the July 14, 1934, issue Desert Plants Defy Their Drought That Never Ends...Study of Twins Gives Clue to Epileptic Personality...Nationwide Flights to Secure Weather Information...
British Heritage July 15, 2004 Dana Huntley	When Coal was King in Wales' Rhondda Valley The scars left behind by the more than 100-year-old collieries of Wales' Rhondda Valley are beginning to heal, but some things never change.
British Heritage July 15, 2004 Judy P. Sopronyi	The Tynewydd Colliery Disaster The heroes of this 1877 mining disaster in Wales worked doggedly to free their coworkers trapped deep below the surface in rising flood waters.
Civil War Times July 15, 2004 Heidi Campbell-Shoaf	Life in the Trap: Petersburg 1864 Circled by Confederate trenches, hard pressed by Union forces, the people of Petersburg had nothing left to do but endure -- and pray for a miracle.
British Heritage July 14, 2004 Guy Wilson	Norman Arms and Armour The armies of William the Conqueror fought using tools of both offence and defence that differed radically from those used to storm the Normandy beaches in 1944.
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