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This video offers a historic walkthrough of Ulysses S. Grant’s residence in Galena, IL, where he lived after the Civil War.
Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...
This video delves into the pivotal strategies and campaigns of 1864 that led to the Union's decisive advantage in the ...
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...
This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...
The Battle of Gettysburg, considered to be one of the most important battles of the American Civil War, came to an end on ...
Vancouver’s former Army post provided a training ground for both Union and Confederate officers until the Civil War broke out in April 1861. At the start of the Civil War, some officers resigned and j ...
Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...
Without meaningful intervention, both Sudan and South Sudan risk becoming the epicentre of the next great African crisis ...
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought on the first three days of July in 1863, resulted in more than 51,000 total casualties (dead, wounded, missing, captured), including more than 7,000 dead, yet it began ...
The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.
When Union Mills Stood Prominent Was Significant With Military Railroad During Civil War, But Then All That Disappeared Wednesday, January 29, 2003 ...