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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... image. 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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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... two months before the end of the Civil War. The main point of the ... was simple communication, largely sharing personal and agricultural news. Dammers lamented that the ...
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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... Turns Activities Send an E-Postcard of: Civil War letter from Agnes Cochran Higginson to ... daughter, Agnes Fuller (c) Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. ...
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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... use of identification tags came during the Civil War. The war's bloody battles with ... enormous loss of life led many soldiers to make their own tags of wood, ...
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... , onions, and tobacco. The Civil War (1861-1865) had a tremendous ... on the Deerfield community. Some of Deerfield's young men were killed in battle; ...
Terms matched: 2 - Score: 397 - 03 Nov 2008 - URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/classroom/curriculum_12th/unit3/lesson1/bkgdessay.html
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... of: Excerpt from James Childs Hitchcock's Civil War Military Journal (c) Pocumtuck ... Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved. Contact us for information about ...
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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... slaves in the years immediately following the Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau, created ... 1865, was a limited exception to this policy. The Bureau, under Union ...
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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... slaves in the years immediately following the Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau, created ... 1865, was a limited exception to this policy. The Bureau, under Union ...
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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... first blood had been shed in the Civil War. The siege of Fort Sumter ... South Carolina, had been bloodless (although two men were accidentally killed when a ...
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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... devoutly religious. He served in the Civil War, reaching the rank of Major ... . During the war he was elected to the House of Representatives and eventually became ...
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