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Revealed: See The American Civil War Come To Life With These Amazing Early Photos
Bubbling under the surface for decades and then raging for four years, the American Civil War was a brutal conflict between the anti-slavery Union in the north and the pro-slavery Confederacy in ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
For this reason, the government turned away African American voluteers who ... But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was ...
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
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North Carolina historians seek to help educators accurately teach about the Civil War
The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction is hosting a two-day symposium for educators in ...