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Environment and the Civil War

The natural and built environment directly shaped the course and outcome of the Civil War. Disease, weather,…

William Tecumseh Sherman

Biography of William Tecumseh Sherman

Class Conflict in the Union and the Confederacy

The Civil War was a conflict that pitted an industrializing, free labor North against a rural, slaveholding…

Union and Confederate Engineer Operations in the Civil War

A history of the engineers of both sides throughout the Civil War

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