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Gibson, Guy James. “Lincoln's League: the Union League movement during the Civil War" (PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1957. 00252270. Lawson, Melinda (2002) "The Civil War Union Leagues and the Construction of a New National Patriotism", Civil War History 48#4 pp. 338+.
For years prior to the American Civil War, slave-holding Mississippi had voted heavily for the Democrats, especially as the Whigs declined in their influence. During the 1860 presidential election, the state supported Southern Democrat candidate John C. Breckinridge, giving him 40,768 votes (59.0% of the total of 69,095 ballots cast).
Mower General Hospital was one of the largest Federal military hospitals during the American Civil War.Located across from the Reading Railroad depot in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, [1] it operated from January 1863 through May 1865, and was closed with the cessation of the war.
View of Richmond above the Canal Basin, after the Evacuation Fire of 1865 Lithograph depicting the Evacuation Fire (Currier & Ives, 1865). Richmond, Virginia, served as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from May 8, 1861, before that date the capital had been Montgomery, Alabama.
How the North Won: A Military History of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983. ISBN 0-252-00918-5. Hoptak, John David. Confrontation at Gettysburg: A Nation Saved, a Cause Lost. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60949-426-1. Keegan, John. The American Civil War: A Military History. New York: Alfred A ...
Forge of Freedom: The American Civil War (2006, US) The History Channel: Civil War – A Nation Divided (2006, US) AGEOD's American Civil War (2007, US/FR) History Civil War: Secret Missions (2008, US) Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (2009, US) Darkest of Days (2009, US) Victoria II: A House Divided (2011, US) AGEOD's American Civil War II (2013 ...
During the Civil War, Fort Delaware went from protector to prison; a prisoner-of-war camp was established to house captured Confederates, convicted federal soldiers, and local political prisoners as well as privateers. [26]
During the Civil War, Delaware was a slave state that remained in the Union. (Delaware voters voted not to secede on January 3, 1861.) Although most Delaware citizens who fought in the Civil War served in regiments on the Union side, some did, in fact, serve in Delaware companies on the Confederate side in the Maryland and Virginia Regiments ...