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      "description": "During the Morristown winter, four days without bread drive Continental soldiers to chew bark and march beside hunger like another enemy.",
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      "description": "A dispossessed Italian officer serves Napoleon from Marengo to Russia, carrying a faded tricolour and one dying promise: Italy will be made.",
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      "description": "A scarred pocket watch leads a descendant from Baltimore to Leipzig, uncovering two teenage soldiers and the promise they left behind.",
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      "description": "A mistaken order sends the Light Brigade into Balaclava’s guns, where young riders dream of glory and veterans ride knowing the grave.",
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      "title": "Not a Drop of Water",
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      "description": "A deadpan USS Constitution ballad records untouched water, vanished rum and wine, and a crew whose naval prudence borders on mutiny.",
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      "slug": "rum-alabama-rum",
      "title": "Rum, Alabama, Rum!",
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      "description": "A comic CSS Alabama forebitter follows Semmes’s raider around the world as captured spirits vanish and the crew heroically avoids water.",
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      "slug": "send-the-italian",
      "title": "Send the Italian",
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      "description": "Pigafetta, John Martin, and Giuseppe Biagi survive three disasters as the Italians sent to carry the record, the order, or the signal.",
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      "title": "Surrender, Swim, or Fight",
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      "description": "At Shiloh, soldiers trapped between fire and the Tennessee River face three impossible choices, and survival becomes the wound they carry home.",
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      "slug": "the-elephant",
      "title": "The Elephant",
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      "description": "A sixteen-year-old chases the Civil War’s “elephant” of combat and returns knowing that glory is the story honest survivors refuse to repeat.",
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      "slug": "tim-and-jones",
      "title": "What Mercy Had To Do",
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      "description": "A wounded Confederate is saved by the Union sergeant who captures him, and mercy turns two enemies into the family war took from them.",
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      "slug": "waterloo-smile",
      "title": "The Smile Inside the Square",
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      "description": "A British infantryman kills a smiling French cavalryman at Waterloo and learns that the glory each sought leaves only one survivor haunted.",
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