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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The financial requirements of the Civil War prompted the first American Income Tax in 1861.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Though African American enrollment rose substantially after the Civil War, this was principally due to the abolition of laws forbidding them from receiving an education.
After the Civil War, the plantation owners needed a labor force because of the emancipation of the African American slaves.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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The KKK was created by Jesuits following their failure in the Civil War, in an effort to prejudice African Americans and liberal whites against Protestantism.
Some may object that the post-Civil War oppression of African Americans still leaves the case for reparations unpersuasive.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The photos of the American Civil War (1861-1865) made by Mathew Brady and his assistants rank among the finest war pictures of all time.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The American Civil War, fought between North and South in the years 1861-1865, was the bloodiest and most traumatic war in American history.
Although German-Americans fought on both sides during the Civil War, most of the volunteers served in Pennsylvania German regiments.
The Gettysburg Room is named in honor of all the Americans, both North and South, that were involved in the Civil War of 1861-1865.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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During the American Civil War (1861-1865) Whitman served as a nurse in a military hospital, where he caught an infection that weakened him.
American Civil War union troops stationed there kept Baltimore from joining the southern rebellion.
Conversely, the American Civil War of 1861-1865 yielded a 128-volume set of “official records” being published by the U.
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