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Confederate Diaspora

In the wake of the US Civil War, approximately ten thousand Confederates expats left the geographic space…

Kentucky in the Civil War 1861-1862

The Battle of Cedar Mountain

The Union forces posed a threat across Virginia in three fronts in the summer of 1862. The Army of the…

The Dred Scott Case

The 1857 Supreme Court ruling on a number of issues relating to slavery.

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