Harriet Tubman led a raid that freed more than 700 enslaved people. A South Carolina church has built a statue in her honor
In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to ...
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Who Won the Battle of Fort Donelson?
Union gunboats were outgunned this time ... slow process of retaking Confederate territory in the Western Theater. The Union Army had to show the public that this could be accomplished to maintain ...