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In 1853, Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War, received the mission of constructing a permanent water supply for the city.
Historians and Civil War buffs often focus on the battlefields and bloodshed of the War Between the States, overlooking the human impact that wars wreak behind the firing lines. From the day ...
The Southern states, which seceded, opposed attempts by Northern states to limit the institution of slavery, particularly in western territories. On Thursday morning, Haley sought to walk back her ...
Florida was the smallest of the 11 Confederate states, with 140,000 residents, 60,000 of them slaves. About 15,000 Floridians fought, the largest percentage of any southern state.
Southern states had stood in the way of recognizing Liberia since its independence in 1847, arguing that it would be inappropriate for the U.S. to host a Black diplomatic representative in Washington.
Why Union General Ulysses S. Grant Issued an Order to Expel Jews From Certain Confederate States During the Civil War An attempt to cut down on the illegal cotton trade, Grant’s decision ...
Southern states used the system to address budget deficits and inadequate prison capacity after the Civil War, while providing a cheap and essentially disposable source of labor to the highest bidder.
The war was the costliest and deadliest ever fought on American soil, ending with Confederate surrender in 1865 and leaving over 620,00 soldiers dead and much of the Southern states in ruin.
This week marks the anniversary of Robert E. Lee's surrender near the end of the Civil War. Southern California, part of a free state from its beginning, held profound Confederate sentiment in the ...