Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 11/6/2008
Like the fledgling United States during the American Revolution, the Confederacy struggled to keep its money in existence during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. Coinage had never been all that plentiful in the states that now made up the Southern Confederacy. It was a debtor area, with coinage flowing out for purchase of manufactured goods about as quickly as it flowed in from the sale of agricultural ones.
The colorful and exotic Algerian apparel that French soldiers saw when they invaded Algeria in 18...
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Fleishman's depiction of the first Civil War battle relies on individual voices to give a human f...
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