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The bronze sculpture, which rests on a granite base, is one of the city's eighteen Civil War monuments that were collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The monument and park are owned and maintained by the National Park Service, a federal agency of the Interior Department. The statue is considered by historians to be one of the better portrait statues in Washington, D.C. (Full article...)
The American state of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state, Virginia held the state convention to deal with the secession crisis and voted against secession on April 4, 1861. Opinion shifted after the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, and April 15, when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for troops from all states still in the Union to put down the rebellion. For all practical purposes, Virginia joined the Confederacy on April 17, though secession was not officially ratified until May 23. A Unionist government was established in Wheeling and the new state of West Virginia was created by an act of Congress from 50 counties of western Virginia, making it the only state to lose territory as a consequence of the war. Unionism was indeed strong also in other parts of the State, and during the war the Restored Government of Virginia was created as rival to the Confederate Government of Virginia, making it one of the states to have 2 governments during the Civil War.
In May, it was decided to move the Confederate capital from
Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War. A millworker by background, Banks became prominent in local debating societies. He entered politics as a young adult. Initially a member of the Democratic Party, Banks's abolitionist views drew him to the nascent Republican Party, through which he won election to the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of Massachusetts in the 1850s. At the start of the 34th Congress, he was elected Speaker of the House in an election that spanned a record 133 ballots taken over the course of two months.
At the outbreak of the Civil War,
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Siege of Yorktown, by James F. Gibson
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Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th President of the USAPresident
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President Lincoln, and John A. McClernand in 1862 by Alexander GardnerAllan Pinkerton,
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George Armstrong Custer, by George L. Andrews
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Andersonville Prison atAndersonville National Historic Site, by John L. Ransom
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The burning of Columbia atColumbia, South Carolina in the American Civil War, by William Waud
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Bixby letter, by Huber's MuseumLithographic facsimile of the
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Peninsula campaign, by William McIlvaineThe Chickahominy – Sumner's Upper Bridge at
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Military execution of the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
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Richmond, Virginia after the American Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and biographer John Hay
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Daniel McCallum, by the Brady National Photographic Art Gallery
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History of Atlanta, by George BarnardAtlanta roundhouse ruin at
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Quaker guns, by George Barnard and James F. Gibson
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Battle of Franklin, by Kurz and Allison
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Christian Fleetwood
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Francis B. Spinola, Brigadier General for the Union in the American Civil War, and Congressman from New York
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- ... that the only functioning secondary school in Mississippi during the American Civil War was founded by Thomas S. Gathright?
- ... that CSS Beaufort fought USS Albatross in the first ship-versus-ship action of the American Civil War?
- ... that Byron Root Pierce was Michigan's last living Civil War general?
- ... that Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the American Civil War was caused by slavery?
- ... that Dubuque, Arkansas, was destroyed in the American Civil War and is now covered by the waters of Bull Shoals Lake?
- ... that Romeo and Juliet both served in the Union Navy?
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