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Forum Post Why did North Carolina secede from the Union? by O\'Bruadair
...uthern people felt their financial well being and even their physical existence was threatened by the federal government. The actions of that government over the following 20 years proved their fears ...
Forum Post If There Were Another Attempt To Secede - what could be learned from History? by pgwhalen
...lking in the ionospheric realm of theoretical supposition. If you think for one moment that the United States government would sit idly by and let a "rogue" element take control of any facti...
Forum Post hey! just in to kick up some dust .... by YankeeReb
thank you ... that's a good chance! ESPECIALLY if government interfere with the historical aspects of the battle flag of the Confederacy and the freedom to display it as part of a regional lin...
Forum Post civil war courts-martial by te622993
... the order was), found guilty, and sentenced to be exiled to Illinois and her property was confiscated by the government....
Forum Post history 111 by macreverie
...the federal army. Many joined specifically for the "bounty" [quote]From 1861 to 1865 the federal government, along with states and localities, paid about $750,000,000 in recruitment bount...
Forum Post If the Confederacy had won at Gettysburgh...? by rebelyeller_1861
I feel that if Lee won at Gettysburg, the Union would be in no position to attack, or defend. Lee would've been able to knock on any major city in the east with little opposition, and if necessa...
Forum Post I just read that in the civil war there were Belgian soldier... by macreverie
...lking about foreign born men not just their ethnicity. ) Many of these were actively recruited by the federal government during the war. It was easier (and less politically damaging for the lincoln...
Blog Comment The Gunboats by PeteHeron
I see, a shot across my bow! I deserved it; in my joy at joining this site, I exuberantly gushed out all my knowledge, but it's been a while, and so I see I've made errors. I think correction is alway...
Blog Post This is What the War Was Fought For! by Sue
It could very well be that Jefferson Davis is turning in his grave, as Barak Obama is now officialy the Democrats nomminee for the white house This is Certainly a big moment in American Hi...
Blog Post A gift from a Christmas past. by macreverie
Dear friends You will find below an absent soldier father’s wartime Christmas letter to his young daughter. The power and simple eloquence of these words and the writer’s ability to ...
 

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