Join us at the Pry Field Hospital Museum for a tour of the instruments used by a surgeon in the
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Stephen Douglas was one of the most important politicians during the two decades leading up to the Civil War. Today
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Patrick Today is St. Patrick’s day, a holiday to commemorate the death of Patrick, a 5th century missionary to island.
The story of the prisons of the Civil War is a very sad one. Thousands of men died from disease
Photo from the Library of Congress. 150 years ago the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was beginning to fill with
The Washington Family Many words have been written about the religion of George Washington from his lifetime up to the
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Historians, as a whole, spend a significant amount of time on the philosophy of history. The question is: when looking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFXpeL1A-kg The Hunley During the Civil War the civilians suffered hardships, and many came from the blockade of their