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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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

The Wounded

It is important to examine the nature and effects of wounds since one-third of Civil War deaths resulted…

The Seven Days Battles

The Seven Days Battles ended McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in 1862.

Supplying the Armies

In the Civil War, both the United States of America and the Confederate States of America were confronted…

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