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Mary Chesnut

Mary Chesnut was a diarist whose writings were never published during her lifetime, but whose “diary”…

Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas's believed that the central government should exercise only expressly delegated powers…

The Orphan Brigade

Members of the Orphan Brigade gave up everything they possessed to fight for the Confederacy: families…

Civil War Ordnance Bureaus

The Confederate and Union War Department Ordnance Bureaus were responsible for supplying their respective…

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