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The Yankee Soldier and the Belles of “Secession Proclivities”
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Rob Wilson With mid-February approaching, I went hunting for a North-South romance story to share on Valentine’s Day. In his well-researched study of Northern troops, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier … Continue reading
A “Visionary” Plan? The Proposed March 1865 Peace Conference, Part 6
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 are available. Part 6 is the concluding post in the series.) From his headquarters at City Point, Grant, in turn, informed Lincoln and Stanton that Ord had met with Longstreet … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Politics
Tagged 13th Amendment, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, civilian influence, Edwin Stanton, General James Longstreet, General Ord, Jefferson Davis, peace conference, proposed peace conference, Reconstruction, Robert E. Lee, slavery, southern women, Ulysses S. Grant, women during the civil war, women's influence
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