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  1. The Inescapable Sectional Tensions Leading to the Civil War
    date 1820 to 1845map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Civil War, Sectional tensions

    Compromises concerning slavery, states’ rights, and economical issues were created to satisfy the North and South, but were not sufficient enough to ease the differences to prevent the Civil War.  The nineteenth century marked the westward movement of many American settlers and revealed the sectional differences among the North and South.  In Stephen Oates’ novel, The Approaching Fury, he explored...

  2. Dissent Among Southern Evangelicals: To Secede or Not?
    date March 10, 1838map WAKE, North Carolinatags Civil War, Government, Religion

    T. Meredith did not know that in less than three decades he would be in minority opposition to secession. Editor of The Biblical Recorder and Southern Watchman, a weekly newspaper “devoted to religion, morality, literature, and general intelligence,” and circulated throughout North and South Carolina, he urged readers to follow Martin Luther’s example of seeking “strength elsewhere than in...

  3. The Supreme Court Takes a Stance on Fugitive Slavery and States Rights
    date 1842map YORK, Pennsylvaniatags Prigg v Pennsylvania, federal power, state rights, Fugitive Slave Act, Civil War

    In 1837, attorney Edward Prigg was commissioned on behalf of Margaret Ashmore to recapture and bring Margaret Morgan from Pennsylvania back to Maryland. Morgan had lived in virtual freedom, but was never formally emancipated by the Ashmore family. In accordance with Pennsylvania’s Law of 1826, Prigg took Morgan before a county justice for a hearing at which the justice declined cognizance of the...

  4. I Ran to the Woods: The Life of William Henry Singleton
    date 1835 to 1860map CRAVEN, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Civil War, Slavery

    Born August 10, 1835 in Newbern, North Carolina, William Henry Singleton lived anything but an ordinary life. He was born unto a slave woman by the name of Lettis Singleton and a white man, his master John Singleton’s brother. The Singleton’s owned the largest Plantation in Craven County North Carolina and were a family of high social standing in the community. Having William around created a great...

  5. Narrative of Walter Calloway, slave from Richmond, VA
    date 1858map MONTGOMERY, Alabamatags Slavery, Civil War, Crime/Violence, Slave Trade

    Imagine being purchased as a slave at ten years old, forced to relocate from Virginia to Alabama, and required to endure hours of hard labor and beatings.  This was the life of Walter Calloway, born in 1848 in Richmond, Virginia.  At the age of 10, Calloway was bought by slave master John Calloway whose plantation resided just outside of Montgomery, Alabama.  As he sat on a porch outside his home...

  6. How Shall They Be Remembered?
    date February 20, 1861 to February 25, 1861map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Veterans, American Revolution, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln

    During the years of his term in office, President Lincoln read two letters that were to remind him of how our nation was forged.  Abraham Lincoln, like most other presidents, received letters giving him praise and thanks for all the work he had done.  Abraham Lincoln also received mail detailing news from the battle front and giving support from the home front.  Two of those letters focused more...

  7. Sumner Takes Command of The Department of The Pacific
    date March 22, 1861 to April 28, 1861map SAN FRANCISCO, Californiatags War, Civil War, Military, Politics

    With hostilities breaking out between Confederate and Union forces in the east, a secessionist uprising in California was feared.  In command of the U.S. Army’s Department of The Pacific, was Col. Albert S. Johnston; an adopted Texan with questionable loyalties. Believing that Johnston posed a risk to Union control in California, General Winfield Scott dispatched Brigadier General E. V. Sumner to...

  8. The South's Exciting First Victory
    date April 17, 1861map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Civil War, Confederacy

    The newspaper article "Glory Enough for One Day" was written on April 17, 1861. The article describes how the Union surrendered Fort Sumter to the Confederate Army on April 13, 1861. The article starts out by talking about the telegram that announced to the south that Fort Sumter had been surrendered to the Confederate States, and how it "sent a thrill of joy to the heart of every true friend of the...

  9. “On the Home Front”: Civilian Reaction to Northern Occupation during the American Civil War
    date May 30, 1861map ARLINGTON, Virginiatags Letters Home, Women, Civil War

    As Northern forces began to push into Southern territory, they were forced to occupy many Southern residences and forage for resources and materials from Southern fields. Often, the actions taken by Northern troops led to hostility and bitterness by southerners towards Northern troops because often the soldiers would cause destruction to civilian Property. This hostility appeared in letters written...

  10. Musical Patriotism of the Civil War
    date 1861map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Arts/Leisure, Civil War

    Two flags overlap on the cover of the Bonnie Blue Flag sheet music that has passed through many hands and sat atop many pianos in its lifetime.  The blue flag bearing a single star, given consideration as the Texas symbol of secession, and Harry Macarthy’s patriotic tune encompassed some of the southern sentiment at the start of the Civil War.  The song’s lyrics cried out to ban together brother’s...

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