The Civil War in One Chart
This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War. (Click on the image to arrive at a zoomable version, or visit the LOC’s website.) The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised...News from Around the South 9/11 to 9/16
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Walt Whitman, who volunteered in military hospitals, knew the gruesomeness of the “real” Civil War firsthand. He described the war not as a glorious national crusade to defend the Union or to eradicate slavery, but rather as “an unending, universal mourning-wail of...Obiter Dicta
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