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Today, a private board of trustees runs the SC State Fair. Walter Edgar recalls his younger years, and remembers the “girly shows” at the SC State Fair, which discontinued around 1975. The last of the...
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Dr. Walker talks about how women in the South were growing increasingly resentful and frustrated with the North in 1864.
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After the Revolutionary War, Pickens becomes known as the premiere negotiator with Native American Indians. Pickens, who originally established a reputation as an Indian fighter, emerges as a peace...
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Life was not much better for civilians during the siege of Charleston. Most of the civilians are allowed to be evacuated, but some if the ones left behind resort to living in tent cities, like the one...
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Civilians back home figure out ways to raise money and provide relief for not only themselves, but for the troops as well.
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Winston Groom, novelist and author of Forrest Gump, has also written a number of well received histories, including Vicksburg, 1863. This narrative history of the Civil War’s most strategically...
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Never did so large a proportion of the American population leave home for an extended period and produce such a detailed record of its experiences in the form of correspondence, diaries, and other...
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Dr. Craig L. Symonds is a retired professor of history at the United States Naval Academy and the author of The Civil War at Sea (Oxford University Press, New York, 2012) ) and numerous other books...
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After the Civil War, and the end of slavery, cotton continued to remain as one of South Carolina’s mainstay crops, even well into the 20th century.
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One issue Union soldiers faced during the 1864 election was whether or not they would be able to vote. Dr. Waugh discusses a new innovation which started during the Civil War: soldiers being able to...
