Home. It was the place where Americans
fought their deadliest war. Mass slaughter ended the lives of 618,000 “Yanks” and “Rebs” who
disagreed over issues like states’ rights and slavery. About
2% of the American population died. (That equates to roughly 5 million people today.)
Photographs at the U.S. National Archives and the Library of Congress depict the horror (like Gettysburg) of America’s tragic internal conflict. Thousands of extraordinary pictures have been digitized and are available for unrestricted use.
What does some of the best evidence, held by America’s Official Archives, reveal?
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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.