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As an embattled Lincoln faced grim re-election prospects, Confederate leaders plotted with Copperhead Democrats in the North to poison the race. In early 1864, as the Civil War dragged into its fourth bloody year, the embattled Confederacy faced its greatest challenge—an all-out Federal military offensive on all fronts, aimed at striking a knockout blow. To …
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Dallas vs. Fort Worth—a Texas-sized FeudIt’s not surprising that Dallas and Fort Worth offer diametrically opposed versions of the 1861 York-Fowler double killing, as one family’s roots were in Fort Worth and the other’s… Read MoreThe Belknap Scandal: Fulcrum to DisasterIn 1876 George Armstrong Custer testified to William Belknap’s trading post corruption. That stopped the secretary of war, but there was no stopping the Lakotas and Cheyennes, arme… Read MoreWorking on the Railroad the Chinese WayHired out of the Central Pacific’s desperation for reliable laborers, Chinese men cut and blasted their way across the Sierras with much courage and endurance and little complaint.… Read MoreSix Accounts of a KillingFort Worth residents Charles Ellis Mitchell and Pinkney Holt were children at the time of the York-Fowler double killing and many years later shared the stories they had heard whil… Read MoreDouble Killing in Fort WorthA sheriff and a lawyer had a brief run-in during a town picnic in July 1861, but a month later they ran into each other again—with deadly results. In 1861 Sheriff John B. York and … Read More
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