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The Civil War Begins
He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...
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Harriet Tubman Just Became a One-Star General, More Than 150 Years After Serving With the Union Army
The celebrated Underground Railroad conductor received posthumous recognition for her service as a spy, scout, nurse and cook ...
How Myanmar’s Civil War Could Actually End
“The end of the war is clear-cut. The only thing that is not clear is the means by which it’s achieved and the timing,” Chris ...
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Ohio Civil War soldiers honored at last for roles in ‘Great Locomotive Chase’
President Joseph R. Biden posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to Union Army Soldiers Private Philip G. Shadrach and ...
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The Civil War's Lost Massacre
After the Civil War, there was a burial commission that the Union Army set up and they would ... For President Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky is vital to winning the war. It's an election year and ...
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A historian's discovery: Virginia's first Black votes may have been cast in Henrico in 1864
Virginia did not allow Black residents to vote until after the Civil War. But during the war, a group of Black soldiers in ...
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‘A true hero of the Union,’ Lowell native Civil War Gen. Benjamin F. Butler honored at Hildreth Cemetery
More than 130 years after his death, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War held their annual celebration of the ...
How Black Civil War Patriots Should Be Remembered This Veterans Day
O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...