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  Ed Bearss: Upton's Assault Staging Point

  Ed Bearss: Upton's Assault Staging Point

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  Unfiltered Conversations with Heather...

  Unfiltered Conversations with Heather...

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  A Sultana Survivor Remembers the Disa...

  A Sultana Survivor Remembers the Disa...

  On April 26, 1865, on a wharf at Helena, Ark., photographer Thomas W. Bankes captured the steamboat Sultana packed with about 2,130 souls—almost 2,000 of them Union ex-prisoners-of-war. Soon, about 1,200 of them would be dead. One of the survivors, Corp. Erastus Winters of the 50th Ohio Infantry,...