It was the fourth of a hot, dry July day nearly 150 years after the fact at Camp Sturgis, a frontier Army post in the 1870s, decommissioned in 1944. Today it’s known as Fort Meade and is used as an Army training ground. Officer candidates from across the nation could have taken the holiday to visit the nearby patriotic Mount Rushmore. Instead they stayed on base to play war games — Civil War-era war games.

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