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141. Turns of the Centuries -Photograph Postcard "Second Baptist Church" [Turns Exhibit]

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... and Community In the decades following the Civil War, African Americans struggled to exercise ... newly acquired civil rights and obligations. Immediately following the war, these "new ...

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142. Digital Collection -Commission of the Grand Army Republic Post No. 84 [Online Collection]

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... levels: At the end of the Civil War, most of the veteran soldiers ... nothing more than to return to their normal lives and put their military service behind ...

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143. Digital Collection -Headquarters Edwin E. Day Post, G.A.R. and Girl's Club Rooms, Greenfield, Mass. [Online Collection]

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... .) was founded to help local Civil War veterans in need. Named after ... E. Day, Captain of the 10th Regiment Co. G, Greenfield Guards ...

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144. Send an e-Postcard [Things To Do]

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145. Digital Collection -Confederate bond [Online Collection]

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... the Confederacy had problems funding their enormous Civil War efforts. One way both governments ... to raise revenue was by selling war bonds. Although the bond pictured here was ...

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146. Digital Collection -"Philosophy put into action" article on Juanita Nelson in The Recorder newspaper [Online Collection]

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... it, Juanita is considered a pioneering civil rights activist. More accurately, she ... 22nd annual conference of the Pioneer Valley War Tax Resisters, which she co-founded, ...

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147. Digital Collection -"Evacuation of Fort Sumter!" [Online Collection]

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... bloody conflict would therefore be avoided and civil war averted. This pretext has served ... extrication and no choice but to make war with a demoralized and inadequate array, ...

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148. Digital Collection -Letter to Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson regarding slavery and democracy [Online Collection]

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... first shots were fired in the American Civil War, Stephen Higginson Perkins wrote this ... which he called "a paper and preachment." He lectured Mrs. Higginson ...

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149. Digital Collection -Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers [Online Collection]

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... this object See Also... Civil War Monument Plate and cup Springfield percussion ... Bridesburg Percussion Musket Excerpt from James Childs Hitchcock's Civil War Military Journal Excerpt from W ...

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150. Digital Collection -"Order of Exercises at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, Deerfield Mass." [Online Collection]

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... cast the stone obelisk surmounted by a Civil War soldier. The Committee of Arrangements ... composed of Josiah Fogg, Charles Arms, George Sheldon, and Nathaniel Hitchcock and ...

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