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History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...
was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will ... would be a better fit for the monument. During the sculptors' visit, the steering ...
John J. Casseday, photographed in his army uniform, was part of a family that sent five members to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He later became a prominent Rochester business owner.