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This Was the Largest Army of the Civil War
The Union’s Army of the Potomac was the largest army of the Civil War, with an estimated 120,000 troops, according to the Essential Civil War Curriculum project. The Army of the Potomac ...
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The Army of Northern Virginia
Strategically, the Eastern Theater was arguably the most important battleground of the Civil War; comprising the states ... the Confederate Army of the Potomac, the confederate forces were renamed ...
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Civil War Photographers
Mathew Brady's legacy is synonymous with the photographic legacy of the Civil War ... Early in the war, Gardner was the official photographer of the Army of the Potomac, after which he established ...
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See what it’s like to dig a tunnel 100 feet below a city
Some of them date back to the Civil War. Pushed to clean them up ... Hazel is digging through Potomac clay, which is kind of like a very stiff Play-Doh. “It’s always a battle,” Birch ...