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ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

American Civil War Packet Diaries

Treading on Sacred Ground, Part 1

The Fourth North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Chancellorsville

Ardor and Impetuosity

White and Black Relations in the Union Army

A Southerner - a true man - a Union man

Recent Preservation Efforts Focus on the Kentucky Home of Joesph Holt

And, As Always, Much More!

EXCERPT FROM THE ARTICLE "ARDOR AND IMPETUOUSITY " - At midnight on 1 January 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freeing "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States," went into effect. This measure was the first step toward ending nearly ninety years of Federally recognized slavery in the United States.¹ Included in this proclamation was a groundbreaking provision allowing black men to be enlisted in the United States military, effectively ending the ntion of the American Civil War being stricly a "white man's war."² Lincoln knew this new policy would be extremely controversial, but he maintained...

Images dealing with White and Black relations in the Union Army during the Civil War on the article's title page in Civil War Historian Magazine.