Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) leadership In the loyal Border States

In the loyal Border States

This decision stunned and demoralized Confederate troops just when Hood was compelled to take the offensive against the approaching Federals

America’s Buried History traces the development of landmines from their first use before the Civil War

The long and bloody three-day battle exhausted both armies

Sherman was still out to destroy the South’s ability and moral stamina to make war

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) leadership In the loyal Border StatesEmbattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all.