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Editor’s Note:  The following is excerpted from The Lives of Patriots and Heroes, by John S. Jenkins (1847).  At the time this book was published, the memory of Nathan Hale, and his

Nathanael Greene was a true Man of the West. Oddly enough, those who first met him often discounted his strength and attributes. You see, Greene had a pronounced limp and had no

Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804.  Peter F. Sugar.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.  365 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-295-96033-7 Peter Sugar presents this volume in the History of East Central

In the Winter of 1861-62, the folks in Memphis were busy building two new Confederate rams, the Tennessee and the Arkansas. In April of ’62, the Arkansas was moved up the Yazoo