Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States. The base is located just east of the city of Warner Robins, 18 mi south-southeast of Macon and approximately 100 mi south-southeast of Atlanta, Georgia....
Susan Merritt, a freedwoman from Rusk County, Texas remembered seeing black bodies floating down the Sabine River (Foner 1988, p. 119). In 1866, U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which established "Reconstruction" in the South (Smallwood 1981). Like the early history of Texas, ...