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...VA headstone policy wrong
CLEVELAND, Ohio – If Ira Cook had died today, chances are there’d be no problem getting a headstone for him from the Memorial Affairs Division of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides that service for all U.S. veterans. But Cook, a black Union Army...News from Around the South 8/19-8/26
Florida: Controversy brewing over portrait of Robert E. Lee FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Lee County chapter of the NAACP wants to hold demonstrations because the county refuses to take down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee that hangs in the commissioners’ meeting...News from Around the South 8/5 – 8/12
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