Civil War

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“It violates what the statute says as a matter of text and history, and just how it’s been understood since the Civil War basically.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

When the eruption of the Civil War and the rise of potential competitors cutting into Field’s political support made another cable-laying attempt impossible in 1861 and 1862, Field “became a traveling salesman,” Mr. Tabor reports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

For the proud sons of two Royal Navy sailors caught up in one of the most notorious incidents of the Chinese Civil War there was only one mission - to have those involved publicly honoured.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

Nearby, is a large poster, with text penned by famed slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass, that was carried in a 1863 parade during the Civil War that calls "Men of Color, To Arms! To Arms!"

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

The town’s new status may have struck many Southerners as ironic, for in the years immediately following the Civil War, Durham was known chiefly as the site of one of the Confederacy’s final humiliations.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson