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04Jun, 2024June 4, 2024

2024 Summer Feature

Captured Freedom: Sleuthing an image of Union officers that escaped from prison and the guides who helped them to safety

By MI Digital

By Steve Procko A text message from fellow Civil War enthusiast Sam Houston with a photograph of 12 ragged men appeared in the middle of our conversation about the chaoticContinue readingCaptured Freedom: Sleuthing an image of Union officers that escaped from prison and the guides who helped them to safety

01Mar, 2019December 21, 2021

2019 Spring The Citizenry

Hostile Spirit

By MI Digital

By Jeff Giambrone After the fall of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, the victorious Union army assumed the difficult role of occupier to a city filled with pro-Confederate sympathizers. OverContinue readingHostile Spirit

03Sep, 2016October 21, 2021

2016 Autumn Feature

A Duel to the Death: The suspicious death of an Iowa colonel catapults a subordinate to command before Iuka

By MI Digital

By Brian Boeve In the late summer of 1862, Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans moved his federals into Mississippi looking for Confederates. Brusque and argumentative, “Old Rosey” was under ordersContinue readingA Duel to the Death: The suspicious death of an Iowa colonel catapults a subordinate to command before Iuka