Citizen Soldiers

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This is the story of the regular, every day people who volunteered to leave their lives on the farm, the docks or their offices, to join American military forces, creating the foundation of the United States that we have today.

Civil War Trust

VIDEO | President of the American Battlefield Trust Jim Lighthizer gives a passionate address on the normal, every day people that risked their lives to create the America that we have today.

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Continental Army in the Revolutionary War

Soldier Life During the Civil War

The Civil War Generation

The Declaration of Independence

Wars for Independence

Monuments of the Revolutionary War

Combat Strategy in the Revolutionary War

Lexington and Concord

The Citizen Soldier

George Washington

Nathanael Greene

The Fighting Man of the Continental Army

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain