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The Deadliest Massacre in Reconstruction-Era Louisiana Happened 150 Years Ago
In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout
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No Small Deed Face Facts: ‘Little Mac’ Outwitted Lee at Antietam
Two Civil War words tend to bring everyone’s blood to the boiling point: George McClellan.
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When Slavery Is Erased From Plantations
Some presidential estates and other historical sites have struggled to reconcile founding-era exceptionalism with the true story of America’s original sin.
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The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
The world of invention is famous for its patent disputes. But what happens when your dispute wasn’t with another inventor but whether the Patent Office saw you as a person at all? In 1864, a black man named Benjamin T. Montgomery tried to patent his new propeller for steamboats. The Patent Office said that he wasn’t allowed to patent his invention. All because he was enslaved.
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Protesters Down Confederate Monument ‘Silent Sam’ at University of North Carolina
The statue, known as “Silent Sam,” stood on the Chapel Hill campus for more than a century. After nightfall on Monday, protesters felled it.
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Is It Possible To Fit the Civil War Into a Single Chart? Here's One Beautiful Attempt.
This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War....The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised at the top of the timeline, aimed to fit as much information as possible into a single chart.
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The Decline of the Civil War Re-enactor
The 155th anniversary Gettysburg re-enactment was a snapshot of a hobby with dwindling ranks.
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My Great-Grandfather, the Nigerian Slave-Trader
African intellectuals tend to blame the West for the slave trade, but I knew that white traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.
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Battle Of Bull Run | HistoryNet
Facts about the First Battle Of Bull Run, a Civil War Battle of the American Civil War Battle Of Bull Run Facts Location Manassas, Virginia. Fairfax County and Prince William County Dates July 21, 1861 Generals Union: Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell Confederate: Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard & Gen. Joseph E. Johnston Soldiers Engaged Union: 28,400 …
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Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Learn more about the Battle of Fort Wagner and the role that the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry played in that important attack in 1863.
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What is a Gettysburg Witness Tree? | Civil War Cycling
Where would a bicyclist find "witness trees" at Gettysburg? This article offers a map, photos, and how-to directions. Do you love the idea of learning American History while exploring civil war battlefields on a bicycle? If so, this site is for you!
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Hunted Down After Gettysburg
An illiterate North Carolina soldier paid the ultimate price for deserting the Confederate state
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The Role of Drummer Boys in the American Civil War
Civil War drummers were a critical part of the army. Here are five things you should know about them.
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The Times at Gettysburg, July 1863: A Reporter’s Civil War Heartbreak
Revisiting a rare and tragic dispatch from a war correspondent whose son, a Union officer, was among those killed on the battlefield.
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Walking in the Steps of an Ancestor in Pickett's Charge
150 years ago today, the author's forbear survived one of the bloodiest failed assaults of the Civil War
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Battle of Gettysburg Finale | HistoryNet
Grievously wounded in body and spirit, the Army of Northern Virginia limped painfully away from Gettysburg while Union commander George Gordon Meade followed slowly -- too slowly, thought Abraham Lincoln.
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Faces of Gettysburg: Soldiers and their stories
A survey of 25 portraits of identified soldiers, 22 Union and 3 Confederate, with short stories of how they came to be casualties during the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.
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“My Hands and Heart Full” - National Museum of Civil War Medicine
How did Civil War surgeons cope with the unbelievable amount of suffering they experienced on a daily basis? There is a familiar figure in Civil War literature: that of the surgeon operating in the immediate aftermath of battle. General Carl Schurz described a familiar nightmarish scene at Gettysburg:
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Voices of the Wounded: The Battle of Gettysburg
The following accounts are a tiny sampling of the battlefield experiences of the wounded on three hellish July days: the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism
When the U.S. Civil War ended, Edward A. Pollard “of Virginia” immediately wrote a history of Confederate military operations—The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates—where he insisted that human slavery was immune from moral blame for the just concluded conflict...
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