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Burger received the United States' highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for heroism during combat at Nolensville, Tennessee on February 15, 1863, when Burger was 14 years of age.
Jun 19, 2013 · Historians who came of age during the Civil Rights Movement placed slavery and emancipation at the center of the Civil War. This trend is now reflected in textbooks and popular culture.
Oct 23, 2021 · Just over one month after the first shots of the Civil War were fired, three enslaved black men got into a row boat and paddled across the James River from mainland Virginia to the Union-occupied Fortress Monroe. Whether they knew it or not, the three young men – named Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, and James Townsend – sparked the ...
Jun 11, 2019 · Many Northerners imagined the Civil War as a battle waged to deliver the South from the clutches of the “Slave Power,” a conspiracy of elite slaveholders who held disproportionate sway over national politics and who had duped, bullied, and even terrorized non-slaveholding white Southerners into supporting the project of secession.
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Sep 22, 2015 · For an overview of the history of black military service during the Civil War with a selection of marvelous sources, see Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, ser. 2, The ...
Oct 27, 2020 · African Americans were freemen, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, sailors, laborers, and slaveowners during the Civil War. As a historian, I must be objective and discuss the facts based on my research. Some of our history may be different from how it has been previously taught and some of it is not very pretty. A photograph of William Headly, an ...
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Apr 14, 2015 · The Civil War is often called the Second American Revolution. It ended the scourge of slavery while boosting the relative economic power of the North over the South. Here are 37 maps that explain ...
