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When?

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in December 1862: “When Shall We Have Peace.” The Portland Advertiser, the leading Republican paper in Maine, asks the important and interesting question and answers it. We commend the answer to the careful … Continue reading

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Need to know

A Seneca County, New York newspaper in December 1862 reprinted more feedback on the Union debacle at Fredericksburg. Facts, speculation, opinion, and politics all seem to be mixed together as the northern press was trying to get to the bottom … Continue reading

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