Portal:American Civil War
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The area that eventually became the U.S. state of Montana played little direct role in the American Civil War. The closest the Confederate States Army ever came to the area was New Mexico and eastern Kansas, each over a thousand miles away. There was not even an organized territory using "Montana" until the Montana Territory was created on May 26, 1864, three years after the Battle of Fort Sumter. In 1861, the area was divided between the Dakota Territory and the Washington Territory, and in 1863, it was part of the Idaho Territory.
Nevertheless, Confederate sympathizers did have a presence in what is now the U.S. state of Montana. Those in the Montana Territory who supported the Confederate side were varied. Among them were Confederate sympathizers who were determined that some of Montana's gold would go into the Southern instead of Northern coffers. But most were those who would rather not fight in the war, which ranged from pure drifters to actual Confederate deserters. (Full article...)
Johnson was born into poverty and never attended school. He was apprenticed as a tailor and worked in several frontier towns before settling in
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Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison
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Andersonville Prison atAndersonville National Historic Site, by John L. Ransom
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Francis B. Spinola, Brigadier General for the Union in the American Civil War, and Congressman from New York
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Siege of Yorktown, by James F. Gibson
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History of Atlanta, by George BarnardAtlanta roundhouse ruin at
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Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John Hay
- The original sketch of Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville, at and by
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Quaker guns, by George Barnard and James F. Gibson
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The burning of Columbia atColumbia, South Carolina in the American Civil War, by William Waud
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Richmond, Virginia after the American Civil War
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Peninsula campaign, by William McIlvaineThe Chickahominy – Sumner's Upper Bridge at
- The print version of Sherman in South Carolina: The burning of McPhersonville at
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President Lincoln, and John A. McClernand in 1862 by Alexander GardnerAllan Pinkerton,
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Christian Fleetwood
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Andersonvillesurvivor
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George Armstrong Custer, by George L. Andrews
- Confederate casualties at Chancellorsville during the
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Daniel McCallum, by the Brady National Photographic Art Gallery
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Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USAPresident
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Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
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Bixby letter, by Huber's MuseumLithographic facsimile of the
- ... that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright?
- ... that singer Frank Croxton performed a duet with his father for the unveiling of a monument to a Confederate States Army general?
- ... that Emma Dean Powell received a pass from General Ulysses S. Grant to accompany her husband to battlefield camps during the American Civil War after he lost his arm?
- ... that Carter Moore Braxton fought for the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War and, according to one report, had seven horses killed under him but avoided any wounds?
- ... that Byron Root Pierce was Michigan's last living Civil War general?
- ... that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
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