User:Dneale52/American Civil War
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American Civil War
(1861–1865).
Peter
, a slave from
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
, 1863. The scars are a result of a severe whipping by his overseer. This man's name is also given as 'Gordon'. See
University of Virginia Website - Harper's Weekly, 4 July 1863
.
See also:
Slavery in the United States
.
Slavery
was one of many issues that led to the
secession
of
Southern
states from the
United States of America
(the '
Union
') and their formation of the
Confederate States of America
.
Dead
Union
soldiers on the
battlefield at Gettysburg
, Pennsylvania — photographed 5 July or 6 July, 1863, during the
American Civil War
(1861–1865).
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