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Why the Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was so epic
It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...
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Union general still vilified for insulting New Orleans women, but he also defended Black rights
The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.
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The Civil War and emancipation
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...
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How Women Enlisted as Men to Fight in the Civil War
American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
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Virginia at War, 1862
8 In July 1862 the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, was still recovering from the Peninsula Campaign, which saw a massive Union army under Maj ... Refugee life in the second year of the ...
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'Kidnapped at Sea' Dispels the Old 'Sea Story' of a Black Sailor in the Confederate Navy
The Confederate warship had wreaked havoc on American shipping and the Union Navy from the Gulf of Mexico to South Africa since it was launched in 1862 ... of the Civil War, it was a famous ...