Events of 1864

'Oberlin Boys' defend the capital  `Season of Fire' blazes with telling details of fights  `Testimonial in stone' on Monocacy battle site  1864 clash leaves enduring stain on hood  1864 would prove pivotal to conflict's outcome  A mission with audacious goals  A Rebel plot and germ warfare  A thorough study of Atlanta campaign  A victorious account of Chambersburg raid  Artist sets his brush to preserving site of the Battle of Cedar Creek  Atlanta's olympic endurance of Union shelling  Battle at Fort Stevens saved Washington from destruction  Book cuts a clear path to Wilderness battle  Cloyd's Mountain battle brief, but fierce  Cold Harbor's brave men lost in fierce Rebel firing  Confederacy's safe harbor ends at Wilmington  Confederates crow after their `beefsteak raid'  Cruel death of Mosby ranger called `Nathan Hale of the Confederacy'  Early's summer march chills Washington  Fairfax encounter with Mosby shames Union  Franklin left `horrid recollections' for Rebels  Front Royal recalls the brutal killings of Mosby's men  Grant fooled, but Lee misses 'masterstroke'  Grant's total-war Wilderness strategy  Greenback Raid builds Mosby's legend  Honor among Masons saves officer from death  Horrific face-off in Spotsylvania  Horror of battle seen with eyes of a child  How Cold Harbor became Grant's Waterloo  Hunt for Mosby was similar to `Moby Dick'  Leaders emerged from Cloyd Mountain fight  Leaders' hasty action saved Hagerstown  Lexington's terrible summer of 1864  Little-known battle where `Jeb' Stuart died  Love conquers all as Union's trap for Mosby fails  Md. raid by Rebels tests loyalties, sows rancor  Memorial to tragedy of June 17, 1864  New insights on the complex paths that led to horrific Overland Campaign  One gallant day of victory for Halifax rebels  People still wonder about Old South Ball  Questions about the Blakely cannon  Rebel campaign into Missouri  Rebels' raid on ice cream melted into a joke  Sergeant saves colors, soldier, too  Sickness, death at Andersonville await Ohioans taken after skirmish  Spy mission ends fatally for local Rebel  The bloody charge of the 1st Maine  The day the South invaded a town in Vermont  Train robbery almost derails a career  Unconvincing, cliche-ridden `Dahlgren Affair'  Union raid on Richmond failed but ignited Confederate passions  VMI cadets earn place in history  Wallace's delaying action at river makes Early too late