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The Battle of Cedar Creek

The Battle of Cedar Creek was the culmination of Sheridan's 1864 Valley Campaign

The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

The Kansas-Nebraska Act implemented the concept of popular sovereignty to decide whether to admit Kansas…

The Evolution of Union Cavalry 1861-1865

The story of the Federal cavalry during the Civil War is not only the story of the development of raw…

Class Conflict in the Union and the Confederacy

The Civil War was a conflict that pitted an industrializing, free labor North against a rural, slaveholding…

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