How much did the Civil War cost in 1865 dollars? Over 6.5 Billion dollars were spent by the North and the South to fight the Civil War. This was a significant amount of money and both sides had to accumulate a debt (by printing paper money and selling bonds) to pay for it. How much...
Original Money, Paper & Coin from the Civil War Era. SOLD Photos of some of the more interesting items that we have sold lately. COVERLET (CIRCA 1840)Well if you have been looking for coverlets lately you know just how dificult finding a good one has become. This is a very large 2 ...
Test your knowledge of Civil War-era legislation and executive orders. Use this interactive quiz and printable worksheet to see what you learned...
The contested state of Missouri was the site of the United States’ longest civil conflict, stretching from 1854 well into the mid-1870’s. While the state’s experience with violence began with pro-slavery militancy in Kansas, Missouri’s long “Inside War” (its infamous guerrilla conflict) ...
unidentified black troops World War I era Father and son from Mississippi GAR veteran and U.S. sailor From the Library of Congress:Camp Hancock, c1918; the December 11, 1918issueofTrench and Camp– more about the newspaper, Camp Hancock, and the Spanish flu outbreak at the camphere; theph...
“In Union There Is Strength”: City-Building and Nation-Building in Civil War–Era Philadelphia, 1844–1865. In: Morgan, I.W., Davies, P.J. (eds) Reconfiguring the Union. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137336484_6 Download citation ....
money to make the "Solatium Payments"(cash payments made by the U.S. Government via 2CA to Vietnamese and Cambodian Civilians who lost property or family members as a results of accidents of war)to the families of the deceased civilians. Possibly, an example of a 2CA Platoon's activities...
The end of the cold war triggered civil wars in West Africa and beyond. These wars were, in the first instance, caused by ethnic struggles for political supremacy, economic control of natural resources, issues of unemployment, poverty, etc. An immediate byproduct of all these civil wars was ...
The Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989. Print. page 393.] From the Library of Congress: bridge memorial –I don’t see any evidence that President Grant was on hand for the festivities; the July 5, 1874 issue of The Chicago Daily Tribune –the...
The end of World War II and the fall of the fascist regime led to a pivotal role being taken by political parties, characterised by an imperfect two-party system, with the Christian Democrats permanently in power as the "government elite" and the Communists permanently in opposition as the "...