Historians often focus on the tactics used in Civil War battles and overlook the reason such battles were fought. Slavery was a central tenet in the conflict. Northerners sometimes used slaves to advance the battle lines, southerners fought to preserve their right to own slaves in the first place. This is a story of slavery with the Civil War as a backdrop, and not the other way around.
Prologue and the National Archives are honoring the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by making the old war new again: from China's involvement in the conflict to the soldier who enlisted in place of Abraham Lincoln.
For more visit: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue
Historians often focus on the tactics used in Civil War battles and overlook the reason such battles were fought. Slavery was a central tenet in the conflict. Northerners sometimes used slaves to advance the battle lines, southerners fought to preserve their right to own slaves in the first place. This is a story of slavery with the Civil War as a backdrop, and not the other way around.
Prologue and the National Archives are honoring the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by making the old war new again: from China's involvement in the conflict to the soldier who enlisted in place of Abraham Lincoln.
For more visit: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue
Historians often focus on the tactics used in Civil War battles and overlook the reason such battles were fought. Slavery was a central tenet in the conflict. Northerners sometimes used slaves to advance the battle lines, southerners fought to preserve their right to own slaves in the first place. This is a story of slavery with the Civil War as a backdrop, and not the other way around.
Prologue and the National Archives are honoring the 150th anniversary of the Civil War by making the old war new again: from China's involvement in the conflict to the soldier who enlisted in place of Abraham Lincoln.
For more visit: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue
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