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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 ...
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
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Henry Wirz: The Only Confederate Officer to Be Executed for War Crimes After the American Civil War
What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.
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Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
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Southwest Washington’s Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War commemorate new officers
Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War gathered at the Clark County Historical Museum recently to commemorate the installment of new officers for the General John W. Sprague C ...