This episode tells the story of the Great Locomotive Chase, beginning at Big Shanty, Georgia, on April 12, 1862. James J. Andrews and Union raiders stole the Confederate locomotive The General, hoping ...
In May 1863, soldiers rounded up McLure and two dozen other disloyal civilians and dispatched them downriver to the ...
We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ended when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 — 160 years ago Wednesday. In fact, reality was ...
As the nation fractured, Americans turned to the Declaration of Independence for meaning. Union leaders like Lincoln saw it as a promise that equality could grow over time, while the Confederacy used ...
During the Civil War, Americans fought over what the Declaration truly meant. As the nation fractured, Americans turned to the Declaration of Independence for meaning. Union leaders like Lincoln saw ...
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