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Pages in category "People of Delaware in the American Civil War" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Most sick people turned to local healers, and used folk remedies. Others relied upon the minister-physicians, barber-surgeons, apothecaries, midwives, and ministers; a few used colonial physicians trained either in Britain, or an apprenticeship in the colonies. One common treatment was blood letting. [2]
This category is for people, places, and events associated with the state of Delaware during the American Civil War The main article for this category is Delaware in the American Civil War . Subcategories
Billy Yank or Billy Yankee is the personification of the United States soldier (volunteer or Regular) during the American Civil War. [1] The latter part of the name is derived from Yankee, previously a term for New Englanders, and possibly deriving from a term for Dutch settlers of New Netherland before that, extended by American Southerners to ...
This category includes people who were notable in the Delaware Colony prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before about 1765. People who are primarily associated with the Revolutionary era are located Category:People of Delaware in the American Revolution, instead of this category.
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 ...
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A slave state with very few slaves or slaveholders, many in Delaware had an attitude they called "states rights," which really meant, "Outsiders are not going to tell us what to do." Given the close economic ties to Philadelphia, and the geographical separation from the Confederacy , there was little sentiment for actual secession.