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Disunion: Lee Surrendered, But His Lieutenants Kept Fighting
“If the programme which our people saw set on foot at Appomattox Court-House had been carried out … we would have no disturbance in the South,” testified the former Confederate general (and future senator) John Brown Gordon in 1871.
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Disunion: The Birth of the 13th Amendment
But the amendment’s successful ratification was not the first time Americans had sought a constitutional remedy for slavery.
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Disunion: Edward and the Elephant
Among the 67,000 sore, weary, traumatized Federal soldiers in Ulysses S. Grant’s army that followed the Confederate retreat back toward Corinth, Miss., after the battle of Shiloh was my great-great grandfather, Pvt. Edward D. Willis.
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Disunion: Why Shiloh Matters
The Battle of Shiloh began at sunrise on April 6, 1862 — the Sabbath — as 45,000 Confederate soldiers swooped down on an unsuspecting Union army.
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Winston Groom: The Battle of Shiloh 1862
Video. Author Winston Groom writes that Shiloh was the first battle in the Civil War that shocked Americans into seeing how long and how terrible the war would become.
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Siege of Yorktown begins - Apr 05, 1862 - HISTORY.com
On this day in History, Siege of Yorktown begins on Apr 05, 1862.
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Disunion: Lincoln’s Triumphant Visit to Richmond
Shortly before noon on April 3, 1865, a telegraph operator on duty at the War Department in Washington, D.C., received an electrifying message over the wires. “Here is the first message for you in four years from Richmond,” it read.
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Confederate capital of Richmond is captured - Apr 03, 1865 - HISTORY.com
On this day in History, Confederate capital of Richmond is captured on Apr 03, 1865.
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Disunion: The Civil War’s 11th-Hour Soldiers
Deadly fireworks lit the predawn sky over Petersburg, Va., on April 2, 1865
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Disunion: The Richmond Bread Riot
Richmond, Va., was the capital of the Confederacy, but by early 1863 it was a miserable place to be.
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BBC News - Excerpts: Beria letter to Stalin on Katyn
On 5 March 1940, pursuant to a note to Joseph Stalin from NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria, six members of the Soviet Politburo — Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Anastas Mikoyan, and Mikhail Kalinin — signed an order authorizing the murder of 25,700 Polish "nationalists and counterrevolutionaries.
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25 Years Ago: A Perfect Storm, An Unnamed Hurricane, and a Historic Halloween Midwest Blizzard
A pair of historic storms impacted different parts of the U.S. during the final days of October 1991.
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Disunion: Freedom and Restraint
On Sept. 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, promising to free the slaves in any state still in rebellion on Jan. 1, 1863. In the crucible of emancipation, Lincoln created the rules that now govern soldiers around the world.
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Disunion: Lincoln’s Great Gamble
Why we should celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The Emancipation Proclamation: This date in history
On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
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17 September 1939 – the Soviet invasion of Poland
On 17 September 1939, early in the morning, the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Poland was already in the state of war with Nazi Germany that had started on 1 September 1939.
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Disunion: America’s Bloodiest Day
More Americans died on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, than any other day in history
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Confederates capture Harpers Ferry - Sep 15, 1862
Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson captures Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day West Virginia), and some 12,000 Union soldiers as General Robert E. Lee’s army moves north into Maryland.
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Union troops discover Rebels’ Antietam battle plan - Sep 13, 1862
Union soldiers find a copy of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s orders detailing the Confederates’ plan for the Antietam campaign near Frederick, Maryland. But Union General George B. McClellan was slow to act, and the advantage the intelligence provided was lost.
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Yankees capture Chattanooga - Sep 09, 1863
Union General William Rosecrans completes a brilliant campaign against the army of Confederate General Braxton Bragg when his forces capture Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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