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Read →Meats included the ever popular pork, especially in the South and West; beef, especially in corned beef; turkey and chicken; and lamb or mutton, gener…
Read →American homes in the Civil War period varied tremendously.
Read →Henry Clay, the "Great Compromiser," had grandsons serving on both sides of the war.
Read →About half of the 12 million school-age children in the country went to school.
Read →As men went to war; the business of running the home, providing for the family, and filling the demand for labor was increasingly left to the women of…
Read →Since most of the battles of the Civil War took place in the South, the daily life of most Northerners was not fundamentally shaken, with the exceptio…
Read →In the South, the agricultural economy was destroyed by the breakdown of the slave system, causing the region to fall into poverty.
Read →The Union was able to provide larger rations to it soldiers than the Confederacy.
Read →Confederate camps had smaller rations and fewer luxuries than Union camps.
Read →Both the Union and the Confederacy maintained prison camps for people captured in battle.
Read →Allan Pinkerton, a famous American detective, volunteered to protect President-elect Lincoln from a suspected assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland.
Read →The Gettysburg Address and his “just cause”, printed to order. From $14.95.
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