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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox ...
MORE TO THE STORY: Ex-Confederates fight last battle in Minnesota
The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry ... Forrest rose to command Confederate cavalry in three states as major general. But his tactical genius was clouded ...
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Black Civil War soldiers massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky, remembered 160 years later
Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky.
Section 3 aimed to keep Confederates from office — and future insurrectionists too
Just after the Civil War, Union cavalry arrested Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at the Georgia plantation ...
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Mourning in the Civil War Era
In the Civil War South, death was omnipresent ... The scene depicted here, the funeral of Confederate cavalry captain Willian D. Latane, only approximated such a service, as it lacked a clergyman ...