What is Cold Harbor on Severance? It could be tied to this major Civil War battle
The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...
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The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
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How Women Enlisted as Men to Fight in the Civil War
American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
In the summer of 1863, however, Confederate soldiers bound for Gettysburg captured Lyles and her children. Two years later, with the Civil War at an end and slavery on the verge of being ...
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Sunday is Robert E. Lee’s birthday. Why does Florida have 3 Confederate holidays?
Lee County in Florida formed in 1887 from Monroe County with Fort Myers, the site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Myers, as its county seat. Confederate Memorial Day was started in Georgia in ...