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		<title>The Swamp Angel at Charleston, South Carolina 1863</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/05/15/swamp-angel-charleston-south-carolina-1863/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July 1863, Union forces Major General Quincy Gillmore&#8217;s Army of the South landed on Morris Island outside Charleston, South Carolina.  Gillmore&#8217;s objective was to take control of Charleston Harbor and eventually, Charleston itself.  Charleston and vicinity was heavily defended, including Battery Wagner on Morris Island, artillery emplacements on James and Sullivan&#8217;s Islands, and Fort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Civil War in the News:   Spring 2012</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/05/08/civil-war-news-spring-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sunken Confederate ironclad and a soldier&#8217;s arm from Antietam are in the news this spring. CSS Georgia Shipwreck Holds Up Dredging of Savannah Harbor The government is set to deepen the ship channel in the Savannah, Georgia harbor to accommodate larger ocean going vessels. Savannah is the fourth busiest port in the country for container [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson in the Shenandoah; Peninsula Campaign Continues; Confederates Evacuate Corinth, MS:  May 1862</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/05/02/jackson-shenandoah-peninsula-campaign-continues-confederates-evacuate-corinth-ms-1862/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 04:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[150 Years Ago in the Civil War After several Union victories in the west in April 1862, much of the fighting in May shifted to Virginia. After a string of defeats in the first four months of the year, the Confederacy finally began to see its first significant successes of 1862. The fighting in Virginia was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of General John Reynolds at Gettysburg</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/04/25/death-general-john-reynolds-gettysburg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lancaster, Pennsylvania native John F. Reynolds was a West Point graduate and instructor at that institution when the Civil War began. Initially, he was the Lieutenant Colonel of the 14th U.S. Infantry, but was soon promoted to brigadier general of volunteers. Reynolds saw action as a brigade commander in  the Fifth Corps during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jonathan Letterman&#8217;s Civil War Ambulance Corps</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/04/15/dr-jonathan-lettermans-civil-war-ambulance-corps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Civil War produced casualties on a scale never seen in American history up to that time. Out of necessity, great improvements in the treatment of the wounded were made during the war, and as time went on, more and more of these wounded men survived. Though there were many who contributed to these advancements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph E. Johnston Quick Facts</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/04/07/joseph-e-johnston-quick-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 04:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name Meaning Joseph is of Hebrew origin meaning: &#8220;Jehovah increases&#8221; Vital Stats Birthday:  February 3rd, 1807 Birth Name:  Joseph Eggleston Johnston Birthplace:  Farmville, Virginia Date of Death:  March 21st, 1891 Cause:  Pneumonia Place of Death:  Washington DC Height:  5&#8242; 8&#8243; Nationality:  American Ancestry:  Scottish Occupation before Civil War: U.S. Army officer Occupation during Civil War: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of Shiloh; Fall of New Orleans; Siege of Yorktown, VA:  April 1862</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/04/01/battle-shiloh-fall-orleans-siege-yorktown-va-april-1862/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[150 Years Ago in the Civil War There was significant action on several fronts as the Civil War passed its first anniversary. Union forces achieved success in the west and along the Atlantic coast, while Major General George B. McClellan finally brought the Army of the Potomac into action on the Virginia peninsula. Battle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lt. William B. Cushing&#8217;s Attack on Jacksonville, N.C. November 1862</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/03/24/lt-william-b-cushings-attack-jacksonville-n-c-november-1862/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Navy officer William B. Cushing is perhaps best known for his daring October 1864 raid that destroyed the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina, but he had a number of additional adventures along the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina in the Civil War. Though the terminology didn&#8217;t exist at the time of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Destruction of the CSS Virginia May 1862</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/03/16/destruction-css-virginia-1862/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the historic clash between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack)  on March 9th, 1862, Virginia returned to port in Norfolk, Virginia for repairs and refitting.   Besides repairing battle damage, the vessel was given a heavier ram, and 100 tons more ballast which increased the ship&#8217;s draft to 23 feet. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Pea Ridge National Military Park</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/03/10/visiting-pea-ridge-national-military-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pea Ridge National Military Park is located in northwest Arkansas on U.S. Highway 62 about 11 miles northeast of the city of Rogers. The Battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn Tavern as it is also called, was fought on March 7-8, 1862 and was the largest in terms of numbers  of troops engaged in the Trans-Mississippi [...]]]></description>
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