Only two days after teenager James Hanger enlisted... ...er teenager James Hanger enlisted to serve in the Civil War , he was shot on the battlefield. To save his life... ...his leg, making him the very first amputee of the war . He would not be the last- around 60,000 soldiers... ...b amputation -most withou...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/14/The-Heartbreaking-Story-of-Artificial-Limbs/The United States was anything but united in the y... ...nything but united in the years leading up to the Civil War . The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 threw the questio... ...hat some consider to be the first of the American Civil War , which didn't officially begin for another ten ye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/09/11/The-1851-Christiana-Resistance-The-Forgotten-First-Shots-of-the-Civil-War/<p>Before the rise of selfies, there... ...de visites were extensively used in the American Civil War era as families sought mementos before loved ones... ...milies sought mementos before loved ones left for war . Queen Victoria had numerous albums filled with i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/08/25/Before-Selfies-This-Was-The-Great-Photography-Craze/In the 1850s, political forces were splitting the... ...l forces were splitting the US in the lead to the Civil War . Abolitionists were campaigning against slavery,... ...he Act were disrupted by the social movements and civil rights discussions occurring in New England. An o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/07/10/When-Idealistic-New-Englanders-Moved-to-Kansas-Territory-to-Put-an-End-to-Slavery/We know that soap is a surfactant made by combinin... ..., it was mainly a laundry product until after the Civil War ! Read what history professor Judith Ridner knows...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/12/The-Dirty-History-of-Soap/<p>Mose Triplett (1846-1938) initial... ...he served in the US Army for the remainder of the Civil War . This latter action qualified him for a pension f... ...ww.msn.com/en-us/news/us/last-person-to-receive-a- civil-war -era-pension-dies/ar-BB14WxEa" target="_... ...person</a> to receiv...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/06/03/The-Last-Person-in-the-US-to-Receive-a-Civil-War-Pension-Has-Died/The 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Fifteenth Air... ...er Group of the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force in World War II are better known now as the Tuskegee Airmen. A... ...combat mission and 200 escort mission during the war , with more than 15,000 individual sorties, garner... ...ering 850 awards. Their motivation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/05/07/Why-the-Tuskegee-Airmen-Were-So-Badass/Embed from Getty ImagesMonday, May 4 will be the... ...y, May 4 will be the 50th anniversary of the anti- war demonstration on the campus of Kent State Univers... ...berated throughout the final years of the Vietnam War and the passage of the 26th Amendment in 1971, wh... ...nt had a complicated relationship...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/05/02/How-13-Seconds-Changed-Kent-State-University-Forever/Have you ever heard of a "bottle whimsey"? It's an... ...ped with the name of a drugstore.”After the Civil War , handmade bottle whimseys became more popular in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2020/04/22/Bottled-Up-Three-Centuries-of-Whimsey-Constructed-Within-Walls-of-Glass/Peru, Indiana, only has 11,000 people, but an inor... ...u got its first taste of the circus in 1884, when Civil War veteran and established livery owner Benjamin Wal...
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