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    African Americans, including former slaves, served in the American Civil War. The 186,097 black men who joined the Union Army included 7,122 officers and...
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    The military history of African Americans spans from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans during the colonial history of the United States to the...
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    African Americans played a prominent role in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was the first American war in which Black and White troops were not formally...
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    The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...
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  • German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War[citation needed]. More than 200,000 native-born Germans...
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  • During the American Civil War Asian Americans fought for both the Union and the Confederacy. Afterwards Asian Americans served primarily in the U.S. Navy...
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    The American Civil War significantly affected Tennessee, with every county witnessing combat. It was a divided state, with the Eastern counties harboring...
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    The African American Civil War Memorial Museum, in the U Street district of Washington, D.C., recognizes the contributions of the 209,145 members of the...
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    who address the origins of the American Civil War agree that the preservation of the institution of slavery was the principal aim of the 11 Southern states...
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    Texan military units fought in the Civil War east of the Mississippi River, but Texas was more useful for supplying soldiers and horses for the Confederate...
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  • The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Civil War: American Civil Warcivil war in the United States of...
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    During the American Civil War, Arkansas was a Confederate state, though it had initially voted to remain in the Union. Following the capture of Fort Sumter...
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    Driven: The Plight of North Alabama's African Americans During the Civil War (2012) [1] Cutrer, Thomas W. Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters...
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    the demographic composition of a predominantly Anglo-American country. In the antebellum period, Louisiana was a slave state, where enslaved African Americans...
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    commemorate African Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, 1855 book African Americans in the American Civil...
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    Contraband was a term commonly used in the US military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain people who escaped slavery or...
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    The American state of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state...
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    The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox...
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  • The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for...
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  • Americans in the Civil War are the Italian people and people of Italian descent, living in the United States, who served and fought in the American Civil...
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    During the American Civil War, Missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both Union and Confederate sympathizers. It sent armies, generals...
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    Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America (2005) The New York City Draft Riots In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New...
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    The Medal of Honor was created during the American Civil War and is the highest military decoration presented by the United States government to a member...
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    in the Civil War (U of Arkansas Press, 1994) online Morris, J. Brent, ed. Yes, Lord, I Know the Road: A Documentary History of African Americans in South...
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    African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or Black Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any...
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    During the American Civil War, North Carolina joined the Confederacy with some reluctance, mainly due to the presence of Unionist sentiment within the state...
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