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Building a Brown Water Navy

The Union's "brown water navy" was a colloquial term used to differentiate between those vessels that operated on the interior rivers and those...
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Harris Farm

This page describes the last major combat fought at Spotsylvania Court House on May 19, 1864.
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The Role of the USCT in the Civil War

Originally not allowed to join the Army, by the end of the war, some 180,000 to 200,000 Blacks served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) and...
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African Americans in the Civil War

African Americans were freemen, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, sailors, laborers, and slaveowners during the Civil War. As a historian, I must be...
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The Dred Scott Case: Dred Scott v. Sanford

In 1846, an enslaved man in St. Louis asked to purchase his freedom from his master. When she refused, the chain of events that followed would forever...
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The Twenty Negro Law

In April 1862, the Confederate Congress passed the First Conscription Act in order to increase manpower in the Confederate armies, which were rapidly...
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Civil War Military Bands

During the Civil War, music, musicians, and the role of music was just as diverse as it is today. In the world of classical music, Western art music...
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Secret Life of the Hazen Brigade Monument

In the years immediately after the Civil War —and the decades that followed — thousands of monuments were erected on Civil War battlefields by the...

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