Jumat, 07 Juli 2017

Torn on the Fourth of July

Defeats in the East and West doomed the Confederacy. July 1863 would have been an excellent time to end the war. A supreme irony of the American Civil War was that on—of all dates—the Fourth of July, 1863, the Confederacy, at the height of its power, suffered two enormous reverses from which it would never …

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