William Roulette’s farmstead was in the middle of mayhem at the Battle of Antietam. Determined to rebuild, Roulette painstakingly detailed the devastating losses suffered by his famiiy.
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Battle of Antietam: Union Surgeons and Civilian Volunteers Help the Wounded
Union surgeons and civilian volunteers struggled to cope with thousands of Antietam wounded with makeshift hospitals in barns and barnyards, houses and churches, haystacks, pastures and flimsy tents around Sharpsburg, Maryland.
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Daily Quiz for July 2, 2007
John W. "Bet-You-a-Million" Gates proved the value of this invention in 1877 and then earned his fortune producing it:
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Daily Quiz for July 1, 2007
At the age of two, Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing because of this:
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Daily Quiz for June 30, 2007
The Soviet Union?s secret police organization?the People?s Commissariat for Internal Affairs?was better known as this:
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Letter From Civil War Times – August 2007
The What-Ifs of What-If History It is inevitable that we are, in some ways, […]
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William T. Sherman’s First Campaign of Destruction
Before Gen. Willliam T. Sherman made Georgia howl, he burned a path through Mississippi, waging a war of destruction that left Southern civilians just enough for survival but not enough to support Confederate military activity.
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At Washington’s Gates: Jubal Early’s Chance to Take the Capitol
In July 1864, Lt. Gen. Jubal Early led a Confederate army to the gates of Washington. What stopped him from capturing the Northern capital and its president, Abraham Lincoln?
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Daily Quiz for June 29, 2007
These leaders attended The Hampton Roads Conference.
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Daily Quiz for June 28, 2007
He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 1797 to 1815.