Henry Halleck was a Union officer during the American Civil War who, despite his administrative skill as general in chief, failed to achieve an overall battle strategy for Union forces.
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USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama, 1864
The most successful and feared Confederate commerce raider of the war, the CSS Alabama, sinks after a spectacular battle off the coast of France with the…
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