Abe & Fido 5th Mass and of his family

and of his family

Volume I: Generals and Generalship

and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy

this "pyrrhic" victory prevented Forrest form being in Tennessee to cut the supply lines of Union General Sherman's army that captured and burned Atlanta on their "March to the Sea

landmines transitioned from “tools of cowards” and “offenses against democracy and civilized warfare” to an accepted form of warfare

Abe & Fido 5th Mass and of his familyby Matthew Algeo In early 1861, as he prepared to leave his home in Springfield, Illinois, to move into the White House, Abraham Lincoln faced many momentous tasks, but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons, Willie and Tad, that the familys beloved pet dog, Fido, would not be accompanying them to Washington. Lincoln was afraid the skittish dog couldnt endure the long rail journey, so he decided to leave the mutt behind with friends