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Representative Preston Brooks beat Senator Charles Sumner with a cane on the floor of the US Senate in 1856. The violent attack is considered a key turning point in the breakdown of discussion between abolitionists and pro-slavery groups in the years before the

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2022-05-22

May 18, 1860: Abraham Lincoln was nominated for President at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
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2022-05-18

in 1863, General Ulysses Grant and his Army of the Tennessee surrounded , the final major confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. This began a siege that would last almost seven weeks.

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2022-05-18

The heaviest fighting of the Battle of Resaca, GA began in 1864. One of the opening battles of General William T. Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, he was opposed by Joseph E. Johnston’s men positioned in the hills outside the town.

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2022-05-14

Every soldier, Union or Confederate, were Americans; fathers, husbands, sons and brothers. Honoring these soliders is a way to show respect to those that came before us, and is a reminder to not repeat past. https://t.co/lWRXC1KxZN

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2022-05-14

The Battle of Raymond, MS was fought in 1863, as part of General ’s campaign to surround and capture . Grant’s army was attempting to cut the Southern Railway, which would isolate Vicksburg and stop incoming supplies.

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2022-05-12

Thursday Marvel’s Infinity Saga Part IV - Iron Man 2, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 & Captain America: Civil War drop this afternoon via .

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2022-05-05

Born 1908 in Mary Elmes-the only Irish person honoured 'Righteous Among the Nations’ by the State of Israel for her work as an aid worker in the & More https://t.co/FvLXmaXxgv or check out 'A time to risk all'

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2022-05-05

4 May 1643 Royalist forces commanded by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, stormed the town of after a skirmish at the town's bridge, defended by local Parliamentarians including 30 boys from the town's grammar school.

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April 14, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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2022-04-14

in 1861, southern troops in Charleston, SC displayed their confederate heritage by opening fire without provocation on the post at , situated on an island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. The bombardment began the

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2022-04-12

9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle.

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2022-04-09

The Virgin Mary sheltering the Bedingfeld family, Norfolk royalists, during the civil war. Painted shortly after the battle of Marston Moor, 1644. Fascinating image / allegory of an English Catholic family during the Interregnum.

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2022-04-04

Jesse James was killed in 1882. Before beginning his career as a common outlaw, he served with Bloody Bill Anderson's confederate guerrilla band in the & participated in the Centralia Massacre in which 24 soldiers were murdered.

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Some southern states still designate April as so we use the opportunity to note that William Pegram’s heritage was to be mortally wounded in 1865 by soldiers of the during the abject confederate defeat at the Battle of Five Forks.

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2022-04-01

Propuesta para anuncio de "Nerds" edición "Civil war" / Proposal for "Nerds" ad "Civil war" edition

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2022-03-30

29 March 1644 was the Battle of Cheriton (Alresford) in Hampshire. Sir William Waller's Parliamentarians defeated Royalist forces under the Earl of Forth and Lord Hopton, ending their advance in the south-east.

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March 26, 1892: Walt Whitman, American poet, died at the age of 72 at is home in Camden, New Jersey.
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