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Categories2026 Spring Feature

Thunderbolts and Lightning at Hoover’s Gap: How Wilder’s Lightning Brigade received its nom de guerre

By MI Digital

By Ronald S. Coddington  Wilder’s “Lightning Brigade” emerged as the Union Army’s innovative counter to fast-moving Confederate cavalry. The notable brigade of mounted infantry and artillery was ably led byContinue readingThunderbolts and Lightning at Hoover’s Gap: How Wilder’s Lightning Brigade received its nom de guerre

Categories2021 Summer Feature

MMB: A concise history of the unconventional, untethered and unruly warriors of the Mississippi Marine Brigade

By MI Digital

By Paul Russinoff  A column of dilapidated wagons and carriages drawn by broken-down horses creaked along a neglected Mississippi road one summer’s day in 1863. The thoroughfare stretched for someContinue readingMMB: A concise history of the unconventional, untethered and unruly warriors of the Mississippi Marine Brigade

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