Comprehensive account of the internment of 1600 Dakota Indians at Fort Snelling, Minnesota during the Dakota Uprising of 1862. Illustrated with maps and period

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Following the loss of the CSS Arkansas in early August 1862, Union and Confederate eyes turned to the Yazoo River, which formed the developing northern flank fo

The 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species evoked a spectrum of responses, from fervent endorsement to vehement opposition, because of th

From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scal