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He searched Civil War records instead of maps. Then he found a forgotten skirmish 1 mile from a river crossing.
He showed how the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies can be searched for camps, routes and small Civil War skirmishes that may never appear on ordinary maps. In one Martinsburg-area ...
"In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire." This quote from a speech given by Oliver Wendall Holmes demonstrates the profound effects the Civil War had on our ancestors. Up to 80% of those who ...
Federal agencies deposited millions of Civil War records in National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) over the years. The originals for most of the records I am discussing are among those.
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