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Tag: Civil War

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In Patriotic Melodies in the Civil War North, “Freedom” Wasn’t Necessarily a Cry for African-American Emancipation

by Gary W. Gallagher2/15/20242/9/2024

Songwriters such as George F. Root usually tailored their lyrics to themes of a still-united nation, with guaranteed liberty for all common folk.

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Was George Armstrong Custer Really A Terrible Strategist?

by Jerry D. Morelock1/23/20243/31/2024
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Top 10 Game-Changing Weapons That Debuted In the 19th Century

by Jon Guttman1/3/20241/3/2024
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A Pacifist Scribbled A Song When She Was Half-Asleep. It Became A Famous Union Battle March

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/15/202312/15/2023
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“Fighting Joe” Hooker Literally Cleaned Up the Army of the Potomac During the Civil War

by Rick Britton11/2/202311/3/2023
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Reconstruction Failed. Why?

by Carl Zebrowski9/12/202311/10/2023
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The Springfield Model 1842 Smoothbore Musket Saw Use on Both Sides of the Civil War Before Traveling West

by George Layman7/20/20234/2/2024
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Louisa May Alcott Wanted to Be a Nurse…Until She Realized It Required Bathing Soldiers

by Louisa May Alcott7/5/20237/6/2023
Drawing of a enthusiastic audience roaring its approval of a speech by Carl Schurz in New York City’s Cooper Union.

European Monarchs Crushed Rebellions in the Mid-1800s—and America Benefited

by Raanan Geberer7/4/20234/26/2024

Civil War Reenactor Goes Off Script, Admits Plan to Bomb Battlefield

by Jonathan Lehrfeld4/20/20234/20/2023

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