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  2. Corduroy road - Wikipedia

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    Corduroy roads were used extensively in the American Civil War between Shiloh and Corinth after the Battle of Shiloh, [2] and in Sherman's march through the Carolinas. [3] In the Pacific Northwest, roads built of spaced logs similar to widely spaced "army track" [4] were the mainstay of local logging practices and were called skid roads.

  3. Battle of Monroe's Crossroads - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Monroe's Crossroads (also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road, and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick's Shirttail Skedaddle [citation needed]) took place during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County, North Carolina (now in Hoke County), on the grounds of the present day Fort Liberty Military Reservation.

  4. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

  5. North Carolina in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The Civil War in North Carolina. North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. Carbone, John S. (2001). The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina. North Carolina Division of Archives and History. Clinard, Karen L.; Richard Russell, eds. (2008). Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family. Winston-Salem, NC ...

  6. Union (American Civil War) - Wikipedia

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    The division of Union and Confederate states during the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865. In the context of the American Civil War, the Union, or the United States, is sometimes referred to as "the North", both then and now, as opposed to the Confederacy, which was often called "the South".

  7. Copperhead (politics) - Wikipedia

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    A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860–1868 (1977) online edition Archived 2012-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Stampp, Kenneth M. Indiana Politics during the Civil War (1949) online edition Archived 2012-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Smith, Adam. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North (2006), excerpt and ...

  8. Red Strings - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, during the next generation, there was an exceptional baseball team formed in Yadkin County with the name, "Red Strings." They only lost three games out of some sixty games that they played in their brief career. Many of the players were trained in Quaker schools, although they denied any relation to the "Red Strings" of the Civil War ...

  9. Morgan's Raid - Wikipedia

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    Morgan's Raid (also the Calico Raid or Great Raid of 1863) was a diversionary incursion by Confederate cavalry into the Union states of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia during the American Civil War. The raid took place from June 11 to July 26, 1863.