Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

The Union blockade of Southern ports ... By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the largest coffee farmers in Liberia—and he hoped that this new country, to which ...

Indeed, high drama marked the Civil War’s last ... lay ahead. The Union had overwhelmed the Confederacy with swarms of blue-coated soldiers, an ever-tightening blockade of Confederate ports ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The Union Civil War Soldier Monument Advisory and Implementation ... Confederates who escaped the Union’s blockade joined other units in Norfolk and elsewhere. White Eastern Shore men in support ...

The book’s opening essay cogently details many of the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath in a discussion ... very good explanation of the legality and effectiveness of the Union blockade of ...

Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864 100,000+ — Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 303,356 — Number of Union soldiers who ...

Both groups retreated before the Union troops from California would return a month later and take Tucson without incident. The event at Picacho Pass was “the westernmost battle of the Civil War ...