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What It Was Like to Be a Civil War Prisoner
Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at ...
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Civil War monument in Lyons edges closer to completion
Made up of soldiers from Wayne and Ontario counties, the 111th served with distinction in the Civil War ... role in closing a ...
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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 ...
Harriet Tubman posthumously commissioned as brigadier general in Maryland National Guard
Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.
Book examines the appeal of military rule
On a college trip to Nigeria, Assoc. Prof. Samuel Fury Childs Daly was struck by just how many people wore uniforms. There ...
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Soldiers in Blue and Gray
The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...