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If we cannot secure our needs for survival on the basis of law and justice, then we must be ready to secure them with army in our hands.

-- Mihaly Karolyi

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Primary Sources Archive: Civil War

The articles published in this Primary Sources Archive are as follows:

1864 - Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi (2962 Reads)
Anaconda Plan (2533 Reads)
Andersonville Prison (2604 Reads)
Battle of Britton's Lane (3369 Reads)
Birth of the Ironclads (1741 Reads)
Black Regiments (1883 Reads)
Brevet promotions (2813 Reads)
Brevet Union Generals of the Civil War (3539 Reads)
Civil War Cannons (2509 Reads)
Civil War Slavery (1904 Reads)
Common Words of the 1860's (23571 Reads)
Confederate Army (2075 Reads)
Confederate Civil War Generals (2286 Reads)
Conscription Act (1586 Reads)
Conspiracy Trial (2522 Reads)
Copperheads (1632 Reads)
Draft Riots (1626 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (1928 Reads)
Emancipation Proclamation (1758 Reads)
Enrollment Act (1583 Reads)
European Recruits (1760 Reads)
Ewing's Order No 11 (1642 Reads)
General Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 (5179 Reads)
Genesis Of The Confederate Navy (1987 Reads)
Irvin McDowell (1818-1885) (3616 Reads)
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (1182 Reads)
Massacre at Fort Pillow (2071 Reads)
Medical Treatment (1815 Reads)
Organization of the Federal Navy (1394 Reads)
Prisoner Exchange (2607 Reads)
Quantrill Raiders (1838 Reads)
Reconstruction Act (2713 Reads)
Reconstruction Plan (1601 Reads)
Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1805-1880) (1491 Reads)
Shenandoah Valley (1557 Reads)
Thanks of Congress (1607 Reads)
The Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February, 1862 (2864 Reads)
The Civil War Sailor's Life (1915 Reads)
The Confederate Cruisers (2001 Reads)
The Union and Confederate Navies (2116 Reads)
U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment (2916 Reads)
Underground Railroad (1730 Reads)
Union Army (1609 Reads)
Union Civil War Generals (2052 Reads)
War Casualties (1752 Reads)

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1780: American troops are badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Camden, South Carolina.

1812: American General William Hull surrenders Detroit without resistance to a smaller British force under General Issac Brock.

1861: Union and Confederate forces clash near Fredericktown and Kirkville, Missouri.

1863: Union General William S. Rosecrans moves his army south from Tullahoma, Tennessee to attack Confederate forces in Chattanooga.

1914: Liege, Belgium, falls to the German army.

1914: Austrian troops capture Shabatz, but Serbian troops check the Austrian advance between Loznitsa and Shabats.

1915: The Russian army is withdrawn to the Brest-Osovyets-Kovna line.

1915: Russians troops enter Van.

1915: Cumberland coast towns are shelled by German submarines.

1916: French troops take a system of German trenches near Belloy-en-Santerre on a front of 1,300 yards, capturing 1,300 prisoners.

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