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1) Stonewall Brigade and Hood's Brigade: The History of the Most Famous Units in Robert E. Lee's Army
2) Fighting After the War: A History of the Most Famous American Battles that Took Place After the Wars
3) End of the Civil War: The History of the Battles and Events that Destroyed the Confederacy and Finis
4) Juneteenth: The History and Legacy of the Holiday that Commemorates the End of Slavery in the South
Inevitably, for many across the South, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived slowly, and in other locales, the new was withheld entirely, sometimes by years. Slaveowners were not simply going to give up slaves, and in the wake of the Civil War and Reconstruction, others created statewide legislation to preserve the old order under a different system of semantics. Credible African American citizenship did not come in a single wave,
..."The failure to crush the Federal army in Pennsylvania in 1863, in the opinion of almost all of the officers of the Army of Northern Virginia, can be expressed in five words: the absence of the cavalry." – Confederate General Henry Heth
Without question, the most famous battle of the American Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which happened to be a transportation hub, serving as the center of a
...Given its importance, it's somewhat surprising in retrospect that the Union managed to capture New Orleans in an easier manner than places like Vicksburg and Atlanta. Admiral David Farragut's naval forces battered their shaky Confederate counterparts and were able to get over a dozen ships upriver past a couple of crucial Confederate forts along the Mississippi. By May 1862, Union forces occupied the city and General Benjamin Butler became its
...7) German Americans in the Civil War: The History and Legacy of German Units Who Fought on Both Sides
8) Underground Railroad to Mexico: The History and Legacy of the Southern Routes to Freedom for America
9) Slave Uprisings that Shook the South: The History and Legacy of America's Biggest Revolts in the 19t
12) Irish Americans in the Civil War: The History and Legacy of Irish Units Who Fought on Both Sides
13) Maroons: The History and Legacy of African Descendants Who Formed Free Settlements across the Americ
14) America's Most Influential Mountain Men: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Explorers Who
15) The Peninsula Campaign: The History and Legacy of the Union's Failed Attempt to Capture Richmond in
16) Confederacy on the Brink: The History and Legacy of the Battles that Saved the Confederate Cause
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