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The Cosmopolitanism of the Union Army: What Did It Mean?

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Matt Stanley

I was recently assessing the demographic makeup of Union and Confederate armies in my Civil War and Reconstruction class when one of my students asked a thought-provoking question: “What percentage of the Union Army was northern, white, English-speaking, and native-born?” … Continue reading →

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