Census data analysis shows the South had a much higher mortality rate than the North in the US Civil War
A small team of social scientists at New York University-Abu Dhabi has conducted what they describe as a more accurate ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to ...
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The men who drew the Mason-Dixon Line
Mason's early life was more sedate by comparison ... the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, representing that demarcation between the North and South - and freedom over enslavement.