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Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

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The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ... rotunda honoring combatants on both sides of the Civil War. “Whether ...

“Civil War.” Mendoza had a personal experience in mind, from November 2006, when he and a group of Navy SEALs were assigned to surveil a residential area in the Ramadi Province in Ira ...

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