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Modern mechanically fused high explosive and victim-activated landmines were used for the first time in the world’s history on a widespread basis in the American Civil War

despite the disappointments and increasingly difficult struggle for African American equality that continued for far too many decades after the promise of the three Civil War–era constitutional amendments

the Federals fought back with spirit and nullified all the advantages the Confederates first enjoyed

friends who eventually formed the team that executed Lincoln’s nomination strategy at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 and won him the presidential nomination

chat with some of the town’s fascinating “resources

Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston (Mark H. Dunkelman - AG) taylor Modern mechanically fused high explosiveGettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death & Celebrity of Amos Humiston By Mark Dunkleman Lying dead in Gettysburg in 1863, a solitary Union soldier lacked any standard means of identification. Only a single clue was clutched in his fingers: an ambrotype of his three young children. With this photograph, the single clue to his identity, a publicity campaign to locate the soldier's family swept the North. Within a month, his grieving widow and