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The Battle of the Wilderness

The first battle of the 1864 Overland Campaign

Varina Howell Davis

Biography of Varina Howell Davis wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

No issue rankled antebellum Americans more painfully or persistently than the fugitive slave problem.…

African American Soldiers

African American soldiers fighting in the Civil War mattered because their service advanced a broader…

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