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In 1862, Travis Meadows was a young Confederate sharpshooter at the siege of Vicksburg. He settled behind a piece of boilerplate with a hole just large鈥�
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In 1865, Yreka, Calif., celebrated several Union victories in the far-off Civil War.When news reached the mining town that Union forces had captured鈥�
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The statues are almost entirely of men. But lots of people played a huge variety of roles in the American Civil War. Karen Abbott gives us an unusual look鈥� -
There are entire libraries of books written about the American Civil War. But Pulitzer Prize winning historian Steven Hahn ranges far afield in time and鈥� -
Political conflict is not new in America -- or Jackson County, for that matter.After the Confederate鈥檚 successful attack on Fort Sumter in 1861 touched鈥�
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Far from the battlefields of the Civil War, a grave stone near the remote Rogue River town of Agness, Ore., reads:Nathan H. EdgertonPennsylvaniaCaptain 6鈥�
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As a small, isolated garrison in Northern California鈥檚 Scott Valley, Fort Jones opened in October 1852. Within two years it contained nine buildings,鈥�
