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    During the American Civil War, Pennsylvania was the second largest state in the Union, and Harrisburg was the state's capital. Located at the intersection...
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  • The National Civil War Museum, located at One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a private 501c(3) nonprofit promoting the...
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    During the American Civil War, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania played a critical role in the Union, providing a substantial supply of military personnel...
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  • The bibliography of the American Civil War comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war...
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    America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War. The Union was led by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the...
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    Harrisburg played a role in American history during the Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. During part of the...
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    outpost to the present. Harrisburg has played a critical role in American history during the Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial...
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    The eastern theater of the American Civil War consisted of the major military and naval operations in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland...
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  • Civil War Museum can refer to: For the American Civil War: African American Civil War Memorial, in Washington, D.C. American Civil War Museum, in Richmond...
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  • Zinn died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on April 25, 1899. He was interred in Harrisburg Cemetery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. American Civil War portal List...
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  • Charles C. Davis (category American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    in command of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Battle of Hoover's Gap of the American Civil War. Davis was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in...
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    been confined to the Southern United States. The American Civil War ended in 1865, marking the start of the Reconstruction era in the eleven former Confederate...
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    During the American Civil War, Philadelphia was an important source of troops, money, weapons, medical care, and supplies for the Union. Before the Civil War...
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    Camp Curtin (category Pennsylvania in the American Civil War)
    Camp Curtin was a major Union Army training camp in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War. It was located north of Pennsylvania's state...
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  • "Departments". The National organization, with headquarters at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, meets annually in a National Encampment...
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    1861-65 City played active role in the Civil War; see Harrisburg in the American Civil War 1861 First horsecar operation: The Street Railway Company. Camp...
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    Thomas Morris Chester (category African Americans in the American Civil War)
    American war correspondent, lawyer and soldier who took part in the American Civil War. Chester was born at the corner of Third and Market Street in Harrisburg...
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  • The Battle of Tupelo, also known as the Battle of Harrisburg, was a battle of the American Civil War fought July 14–15, 1864, near Tupelo, Mississippi...
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    Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk (category Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Pennsylvania)
    The Dauphin County Veteran's Memorial Obelisk, sometimes called the Harrisburg Obelisk, is an Egyptian-style obelisk that was erected in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
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    Charles Edwin King (category Child soldiers in the American Civil War)
    the American Civil War. Being mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam, he is the youngest confirmed soldier from either side to die during the war...
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    historic neighborhood in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's northern end, located in Uptown and named for the American Civil War camp of the same name. It is bordered...
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    City Island is a mile-long island in the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg and Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is used mainly for...
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  • Railroad. Civil War veterans, including Ephraim Slaughter, the last surviving Civil War Veteran of Harrisburg are buried in the cemetery. He served in the 37th...
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    The state of New York during the American Civil War was a major influence in national politics, the Union war effort, and the media coverage of the war...
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    The Pacific coast theater of the American Civil War consists of major military operations in the United States on the Pacific Ocean and in the states and...
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    Battle of Hoke's Run (category 1861 in the American Civil War)
    Division". Civil War in the East. Retrieved 28 October 2012. Bates, Samuel P. (1869). History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Vol. I. Harrisburg, PA: B...
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    Edward J. Stackpole (category Burials at Harrisburg Cemetery)
    in historical works about the American Civil War. He died in Harrisburg on October 1, 1967. Stackpole was buried at Harrisburg Cemetery in Harrisburg...
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    Harrisburg Cemetery, sometimes referred to as Mount Kalmia Cemetery, is a prominent rural cemetery and national historic district in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
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    On the onset of the American Civil War in April 1861, Ulysses S. Grant was working as a clerk in his father's leather goods store in Galena, Illinois...
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  • Stephen R. Reed (category Mayors of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
    museums in Harrisburg, centered on the National Civil War Museum. Plans for the Old West Museum met strong public opposition and Reed placed the plans on...
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