How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
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The Civil War By the Numbers
Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...
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Those who have Civil War ancestors find camaraderie within the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...
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Dalton teenager finds sword that was gifted to Civil War veterans and their families in home that once belonged to Zenas Marshall Crane
Marine Corps or the Revenue Cutter Service. They were given to veterans who served between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865. As members of the GAR began to die out, the Sons of Veterans — which later ...
Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly different ...