A 2021 study of memorials in America counted 5,917 monuments that memorialize the Civil ... soldiers’ sacrifices; it is a memorial to the deliberate forgetting of the deepest meanings of the war.

Until recently, these soldiers were unidentified. Snyder used his contacts as a Civil War re-enactor to talk to members of the Sons of Union Veterans. This, along with other information ...

(Getty) A number of years ago, in his book Yankee Leviathan ... government and finance capital that was forged during the Civil War “mortgaged a radical Reconstruction” before the conflict ...

“But it also gives us a glimpse into the personal involvement of Jewish soldiers fighting for the Union cause.” About 150,000 Jews lived in the United States at the time of the Civil Wa ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers - but nothing linking them to the Civil War. Still, that was enough for an organization ...

To identify the states that sent the most troops to fight in the Civil ... side of the war most troops from each state or territory fought on, we used enlistment totals from Soldiers and Sailors ...

Many soldiers were wounded in combat, often at major battles such as Stones River and Gettysburg, but survived until long after the Civil War’s conclusion. An estimated 620,000 soldiers died ...