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Artillery Hell: In the Line of Fire

Journey to Freedom: Jack and Calfurnia Carter

Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne and the Proposal to Arm Slaves
Once was Lost…Now is Saved: Seven Acre Cotton Gin Park to be Open by Sesquicentennial (published 2013)
The Road to Franklin: An Almost Impossible Task (1864 Atlanta Campaign)
Coming Home: Civil War Pensions
The Fall of Atlanta

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