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Into the Shadows on MSN14h
Henry Wirz: The Only Confederate Officer to Be Executed for War Crimes After the American Civil War
Henry Wirz remains one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. As commandant of Andersonville Prison, he oversaw ...
Amazon S3 on MSN8h
America's Reconstruction: From Civil War to a New Nation
The film discusses the aftermath of the Civil War, focusing on the devastation in the South and the challenges faced by ...
'These are facts.' Cincinnati's Freedom Center fights Trump's version of American history
When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...
Fort Benning takes back its old name, but to honor a different soldier
The Army is restoring the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old ...
Smithsonian Magazine11h
After the Civil War, African-American Veterans Created a Home of Their Own: Unionville
After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... served as an admiral in the Confederate navy. The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated ...
Smithsonian Magazine10h
When Washington, D.C. Came Close to Being Conquered by the Confederacy
Jubal Early of the Confederate States Army ... back in Kentucky he pleaded with his state to stay out of the spreading civil war. Union military authorities ordered his arrest.