Preparing to See the Elephant

Preparing the Negro Soldiers to Use the Minie Rifle

Image Credit: Harper’s Weekly, March 14, 1863.

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Southward Bound

One hundred fifty years ago today—October 17, 1861—25-year-old Lieutenant W. H. Timberlake of the 8th Maine Volunteers wrote the following letter from his regiment’s camp in Annapolis, Maryland. The men…