ONCE A CIVIL WAR

The U.S. Civil War: Was it one nation divided, remaking itself, or two nations at war? There is no one answer. But every day was a day of great change.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

August 2, 1865---The Last Flags*

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AUGUST 2, 1865: Somewhere off the western coast of Latin America, the C.S.S. SHENANDOAH met the H.M.S. BARRACOUTA. Although the BARRACOU...

August 1, 1865---The Inevitable Events: "As we have fought like men, like men we will make peace."

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AUGUST 1, 1865:         By the height of the Summer of 1865, the Civil War was passing into history.   Throughout the North, men were b...

July 31, 1865---"Final surrender"

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JULY 31, 1865:                      Robert E. Lee writes to his former aide Walter H. Taylor about compiling the history of   The A...

July 30, 1865---The Powder River War

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JULY 30, 1865:            The Powder River War begins in Wyoming Territory between the United States and combined bands of Sioux, C...

July 29, 1865---The selling of Abraham Lincoln

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JULY 29, 1865:           The American mercantile spirit, ever restive, finds a way to exploit the death of President Lincoln:  W.M. Ray...

July 28, 1865---Circular # 15

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JULY 28, 1865:           “Circular # 15” specifying new rules for the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, And Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen...

July 27, 1865---"Little more than a first-rate clerk."

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JULY 27, 1865:                      General Henry “Old Brains” Halleck is appointed to lead the new Military District of The Pacific....
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

July 26, 1865---“If we are to die, in God’s name, let us perish like men and not like bales of hay.” *

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JULY 26, 1865:           Samuel Curly, a Virginia Freedman, attempted to claim his son from his former Master, who was still holdin...
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