When Harriet Tubman Helped Lead a Civil War Raid That Freed 750 People
With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...
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The Other Side of Sherman’s March
The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...
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CIVIL WAR
Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South Carolina State House grounds. In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would ...