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The Jewish women who kept Confederate graves from disappearing
In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set ...
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The 18 most horrifying facts about the Civil War that still haunt Americans today and reveal the true human cost
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At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...
The remains of four Confederate soldiers, uncovered last year during archaeological excavations near the Powder Magazine in Colonial Williamsburg, will be reburied in the city’s Cedar Grove Cemetery ...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution when they uncovered the eye sockets of a human skull.
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What hygiene was like among Civil War armies
What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate troops. Confronted by unsanitary living conditions and the ever-present risk of ...
We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...
The Florence City Council will debate and vote on a plaque that may be placed in front of the controversial Confederate ...
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