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The Union flew the white flag of surrender at Fort Sumter. Now it's up for auction in Greenville.
A Charleston, South Carolina surrender flag, Confederate documents, and Union soldier items among historic Civil War ...
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Rare Civil War flag to be sold at Columbus auction
which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one of the nation’s leading purveyors of early American ...
New comic book tells tale of Civil War’s first Black Medal of Honor recipient
Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...
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How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded ... Aeronauts used signal flags to help signal Union commanders. The corps was also innovative in another way. The balloons were ...
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The Gentleman’s Agreement That Ended the Civil War
National Museum of American History ... be deferred. The Union was saved, but the intersections of race and legacy of slavery, which was at the core of the Civil War, continues to confront ...
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Rare Civil War flag to be sold at Ohio auction
which also sold the sword of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman last May, to list the flag for bidding. The auction house, one of the nation’s leading purveyors of early American ...