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Women and Soldiers' Aid Societies

In both the North and South women created support groups generally called Soldiers’ Aid Societies or…

Post-war Treatment of High Ranking Confederate Leaders

The fighting stopped at the Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas, on May 13, 1865, but before…

Jim Crow

The Jim Crow system of segregation adopted by the states of the U.S. Southeast was devised in an attempt…

Atlanta Campaign: Peachtree Creek to the City's Surrender

When General John Bell Hood took command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee on July 18, 1864, relieving…

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