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Category: U.S. Civil War

July 12, 2023June 6, 2024U.S. Civil War

Pay rates in 1851 on the Dakota Territory frontier.

Fort Union in the Dakota Territory was a major trading post constructed and operated by the American Fur Company. For a few […]

July 10, 2023July 9, 2023U.S. Civil War

Army pay scale during the “Indian Wars.”

Fort Buford, in what was the Dakota Territory at the time, was the major supply depot as the US Army deployed on […]

February 12, 2020U.S. Civil War

Gettysburg Address.

A tribute to the memory and legacy of Abraham Lincoln as we remember his birth on February 12, 1809. The Gettysburg Address, […]

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020comparison data, U.S. Civil War

Prices of slaves on the eastern shore of Maryland before the Civil War.

Watched the uplifting and depressing movie Harriet last night. Second time I’ve seen it. Fabulous tale about the efforts of Harriet Tubman […]

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019comparison data, Other eras, U.S. Civil War

Pay rate for privates in each of America’s wars

Pay for American soldiers during each major war is provided by We Are the Mighty. Their article, This is how much troops […]

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019U.S. Civil War

Prices of slaves on the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War – Part 4

This series of posts focuses on the prices of slaves and some of the economics of the slave system as discussed in […]

December 5, 2019January 3, 2020U.S. Civil War

Prices of slaves on the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War – Part 3

This series of posts focuses on the prices of slaves and some of the economics of the slave system as discussed in […]

November 27, 2019December 9, 2019U.S. Civil War

Prices of slaves on the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War – Part 2

This series of posts focuses on the prices of slaves and some of the economics of the slave system as discussed in […]

November 25, 2019December 9, 2019U.S. Civil War

Prices of slaves on the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War – Part 1

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero, by Kate Clifford Larson provides the first adult biography of […]

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019U.S. Civil War

Indicator of soldier’s pay late in the Civil War. Racial disparity in pay rates.

Hymns of the Republic by S. C. Gwynne cites an editorial on May 1, 1864 in the Chicago Tribune titled “Read and […]

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