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| | Civil union - Open Encyclopedia |
 | | The controversial civil unions law enacted in Vermont in 2000 was passed as a response to the Vermont Supreme Court ruling in Baker v. | | | The attempt of Glen Rosengarten to obtain, in his home state of Connecticut, a formal dissolution of his Vermont civil union with Peter Downes, then a resident of New York City, was rejected by the court of appeals on the basis of lack of jurisdiction. | | | In July 2004, the American state of New Jersey enacted a law that is virtually the same as a typical civil union, giving same-sex couples most of the rights associated with marriage. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Union (American Civil War) |
| | The American Civil War was fought in North America from 1861 until 1865 between the United States of America – forces coming mostly from the 23 northern states of the Union – and the newly-formed Confederate States of America, which consisted of 11 southern states that had declared their secession. | | | Alternative meanings in State of the Union (disambiguation) The State of the Union Address is an annual event in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). | | | This is awesome!!!))Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the United States, the northern states that did not secede. |
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| | Vermont Secretary of State - Civil Unions |
| | The couple may not be close family members: A woman may not enter into a civil union with her mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, brother's daughter, sister's daughter, father's sister or mother's sister. | | | Performing ceremonies (marriage and civil union) are discretionary functions of this office. | | | Indeed, the couple is free to discuss with the justice, judge or clergy member their own ideas of what they want in a ceremony. |
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| | Gay News From 365Gay.com |
| | Bush, said he continues to support a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union of a man and a woman, because he is concerned about what "activist judges" will do without clear guidelines. | | | The head of another group, the Campaign for California Families, said it, too, wants a sweeping constitutional amendment that bars civil unions and same-sex marriage. | | | "President Bush's election eve conversion to support civil unions cannot be reconciled to his efforts to amend the constitution to ban civil unions." |
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| | Partners Task Force - Civil Unions: The Vermont Approach |
| | The second state to declare civil unions to be invalid, was Georgia. | | | The reason for the new, beneficial law derives from a Vermont Supreme Court ruling, on December 1999, that requires same-sex couples to be treated the same as opposite-sex couples by the State. | | | Woodbury County District Judge Jeffrey A. Neary, granted a Civil Union dissolution on November 14, 2003, without a hearing. |
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| | Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Civil union law sought |
| | Under pressure to respond to the Supreme Judicial Court's decision on gay marriage, Governor Mitt Romney and a top House lawmaker said yesterday that they believe the justices would be satisfied if lawmakers craft a civil union statute that grants many of the benefits of marriage but does not legally sanction same-sex marriage. | | | Meanwhile, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini said that he was considering making a formal Senate request to the SJC justices to expand on their reasons for granting the six-month stay. | | | Talking with reporters outside his office, Romney said that the justices, by giving lawmakers 180 days to carry out their ruling, gave state legislators a window to put in place "a civil union type" statute. |
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| | Military & Pension Records for Union Civil War Veterans |
| | In it he stated simply that his father was a Civil War veteran, along with the date of birth and date of death for his father. | | | Practically all of the schedules for the States Alabama through Kansas and approximately half of those for Kentucky appear to have been destroyed, possibly by fire, before the transfer of the remaining schedules to the National Archives in 1943. | | | Another resource is the state which your ancestor served from. |
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| | ACLU of Florida |
| | The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida is freedom's watchdog, working daily in the courts, legislatures and communities to defend individual rights and personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. |
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| | Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force |
| | The vote came one year after Massachusetts became the nation’s first state to legalize gay marriages through a court edict, and after more than 6,100 same-sex couples in the state had married. | | | legislature defeats amendment to overturn gay marriage A joint session of the Massachusetts Legislature voted 157-39 on Wednesday to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage while calling for legalizing civil unions. |
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| | The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, Inc. (ACLU/WI) |
| | The 6th annual ACLU of Wisconsin Youth and Civil Liberites event was sponsored by Marquette University and Marquette Law School as well as the Milwaukee Election Commission and Urban Underground. | | | The Youth and Civil Liberties Council is this year's recipient for the Outstanding Human Relations Organization Award of the 2005 Statewide Equity and Multicultural - WSHRA Conference held annually at Wisconsin Dells, WI. | | | Milwaukee -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin is charging that Wisconsin public schools, including the Milwaukee Public Schools, are denying parents and students important information about military recruitment. |
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| | Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders -- Equal Justice Under Law |
| | Rumsfeld, a federal appeals court held that the military could not force its way into law school career recruitment programs over the objection of the plaintiff law schools where the basis for the exclusion was the law schools' enforcement of non-discrimination policies. | | | September 7, 2005 -- GLAD represented Janet Miller-Jenkins today before the Vermont Supreme Court as she seeks enforcement of a visitation order allowing her a continued relationship with the child she had and raised with her civil union spouse, Lisa Miller-Jenkins. | | | November 18, 2005 -- On the 2nd anniversary of the Goodridge decision, GLAD held a panel discussion on the linkages between the civil rights movement and the movement for lgbt rights. |
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| | Civil War - Union - Women |
| | On a mission behind Confederate lines, she was captured and sentenced to death, but was left behind when Bragg's forces withdrew from Shelbyville, Tennessee. | | | Surveillant 3.2/3: "Of particular interest is his account of Private Franklin Thompson [Sarah Emma Edmonds] who served as a spy and orderly for the North, and as a nurse." | | | "Alias Franklin Thompson: A Female in the Ranks." Civil War Times Illustrated 22, no. 9 (1984): 24-31. |
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| | Women in the Civil War |
| | Dr Mary Walker, a surgeon in the Civil War, was awarded the nation's highest honor by President Andrew Johnson. | | | On November 15, 1866, shortly after her job with the Army ended, Cathay Williams disguised her gender and joined the 38th Infantry, Company A, in St. Louis. | | | She grew up and worked as a house-girl for wealthy planter William Johnson in Jefferson City, Missouri. |
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| | US Civil War Generals |
| | For the Union, confirmation of promotions often took a long time and a large number of promotions were not confirmed by the Senate. | | | (This is the practice used by the Historical Register) However, it appears that Union generals were not known by their new rank until it had been confirmed. | | | This Civil War Circuit site is owned by |
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| | The Generals of the American Civil War |
| | In 1864 the rank of lieutenant general was reactivated and given to Ulysses Simpson Grant. | | | 1,008 officers were appointed to the various general ranks on both sides during the American Civil War. | | | All wore the same insignia making it impossible to identify a general´s rank by his uniform. |
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| | NYCLU Front Page |
| | The New York Civil Liberties Union goes to court in Buffalo today to ask Judge William W. Skretny to stop the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing a policy of detaining, interrogating, fingerprinting and photographing American citizens at the border solely because they attend Islamic conferences. | | | The New York Civil Liberties Union plans an immediate appeal of federal Judge Richard Berman's decision today declaring the NYPD's subway bag search policy constitutional. | | | The NYCLU, the New York State affiliate of the ACLU, defends the rights and liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights |
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| | Civil War Units -- Unit 2 -- version 8.5 |
| | Within a state the units are organized by number (1st Infantry, etc.). | | | Reg., esp. color guard greynolds@lisp.purdy.wayne.edu Belgians in the Civil War (MI) mikem@garth.grdl.noaa.gov (Mike Morrison) Iron Brigade (MI) 1861-5 robr@advnet.net (Rob Richardson) Ross's Battery (MI) reenactr@ix16.ix.netcom.com (Ronald Griffin) Minnesota MN Civil War resources (under September 1997) http://www.parkbooks.com/Html/research.html 1st Minnesota Vol. | | | Cavalry (USA) 1863-5 gtrl@esper.com (Tom Land) http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/8081/kycav13.html 14th Kentucky Infantry Union Volunteers us14thky@hotmail.com (Marlitta H. Perkins) http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~us14thkyinfantry/ 14th KY Volunteer Cavalry 1862-4 chesnut@kgs.mm.uky.edu 14th Ky. Cavalry, Co. B PSBF51A@prodigy.com 15th Kentucky Infantry (US) kjenkin2@ix.netcom.com (Kirk C. Jenkins) http://www.fifteenthkentucky.com 16th KY Infantry 1861-5 jvaughn@tusk.gc.edu 17th KY Vol. |
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| | HOMOSEXUAL (SAME-SEX) MARRIAGES IN VERMONT |
| | Craig Bensen, a pastor and lobbyist who actively opposed civil unions, said: "I anticipate that if there were an attempt to do Massachusetts-style marriage that the public would be heavily favored to maintain the status quo." He was unsuccessful in running for the state Senate as a Republican. | | | 36% of voters prefer that same-sex couples should be able to enter into civil unions only. | | | However, a civil union is not a marriage. |
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific NZ recognises same-sex unions |
| | Conservation Minister Chris Carter, who is planning a civil union with his partner Peter Kaiser as soon as the law takes effect, told parliament that history was being created. | | | The decision came as Canada's Supreme Court prepared to hand down a landmark ruling on whether gay marriage must be allowed across the country. | | | The Civil Union Bill, which passed by 65 votes to 55, also recognises unions between men and women who do not want to marry. |
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| | Vermont Freedom to Marry Action Committee |
| | The Court's decision led to Vermont's then-groundbreaking civil union law. | | | Opponents of equality for same-sex couples have seized on the judicial retention process as a vehicle for attacking the Baker decision, and the Justices who decided it. | | | The other two Baker justices have retired from the Court. |
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| | Civil War Prisons |
| | The Union had Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, Fort Lafayette in N.Y., Fort McHenry in Baltimore and, most dreaded in the South, Fort Delaware in the Delaware River. | | | This draft was submitted to and approved by their superiors. | | | In the very beginning of the Civil War, prisoners of war were exchanged right on the battlefield, a private for a private, a sergeant for a sergeant and a captain for a captain. |
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| | AllRefer.com - American Civil Liberties Union (Social Reform) - Encyclopedia |
| | Among these are the so-called Scopes monkey trial in Tennessee (1925), the Sacco-Vanzetti case (1920s), the federal court test (1933) that ended the censorship of James Joyce's Ulysses, and the landmark Brown v. | | | See J. Gibson and R. Bingham, Civil Liberties and Nazis (1985). | | | Since its founding, the ACLU has participated directly or indirectly in almost every major civil liberties case contested in American courts. |
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| | Vermont Civil Union FAQ's |
| | Existing Vermont laws provide citizens with tools to require government officials, including town clerks, to perform their statutorily mandated duties: | | | The rest of the act takes effect July 1, 2000. | | | Persons authorized to certify a civil union include judges, justices of the peace and clergy. |
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| | Civil War Prison Point Lookout |
| | A federal prison camp for Confederates was built on Point Lookout, Maryland, at the extreme tip of St. Mary's County, on the barren peninsula where the Potomac River joins Chesapeake Bay. | | | Union Civil War Prison at Point Lookout, Maryland | | | The camp was established after the Battle of Gettysburg to incarcerate Confederate prisoners. |
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| | Gratiot Street Prison |
| | Across the street was the home of Judge Harrison, a southern-sympathizing family that, nevertheless, were friends of James O. Broadhead, the Union Provost Marshal General who is reported as having said that every damned abolitionist in the country ought to be hung. | | | This created a situation unlike any other surrounding a major Civil War prison. | | | May 31, 1861 his medical college building was searched for munitions, the building confiscated by the Federal government, and remained under Union military control for the remainder of the war. |
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| | ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: PREMIER LIBRARY SOURCES |
| | By December 1865, there were 84 regiments and six battalions of Missouri militia, which had been raised according to the provisions of the Missouri Militia Act. | | | Annual Report of the Quartermaster General of Missouri for For the Year 1865. | | | None of these units, however, appear to have been called into either state or federal service during the Civil War. |
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| | Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War |
| | This Civil War Circuit site is owned by the | | | This Civil War Heritage Ring site is owned by the | | | The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War is |
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| | 1Civil War, the Confederacy, Hispanics in Americas Defense, Civil War USA |
| | In 1856 he became Major of Loredo and at the time of the Civil War, he had become a leading politician and financial figure in the area. | | | Over 13,000 Hispanics served under the Confederacy Documented by Mr. | | | 1Civil War, the Confederacy, Hispanics in Americas Defense, Civil War USA |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Lesbian Gay Rights |
| | This is the Web site of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU Foundation. | | | The Lesbian and Gay Rights Project fights discrimination and moves public opinion on LGBT rights through the courts, in legislatures and public education. | | | American Civil Liberties Union : Lesbian Gay Rights |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) |
| | The ACLU's mission is to fight civil liberties violations wherever and whenever they occur - working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. | | | American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) | | | Since the ACLU's founding in 1920, the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization has grown from a roomful of civil liberties activists to an organization with over 500,000 members and supporters nationwide, nearly 15,000 members in New Jersey and offices covering every state. |
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| | HOMOSEXUAL (SAME-SEX) MARRIAGES - All sides to the issue |
| | It was only after the civil war that African-Americans were allowed to marry in all areas of the U.S. It was only after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1967 that mixed race couples could marry anywhere in the U.S. But, until recently, same-sex couples could not marry anywhere in the world. | | | It prohibits the federal government from recognizing civil unions. | | | But over 1,000 federal rights and privileges that married couples receive automatically would be withheld from "civil unionized" couples because of the federal DOMA law. |
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| | RTE.ie Entertainment - John & partner's civil union takes place |
| | Elton John and his long-term partner David Furnish have taken part in a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor, outside London, as the new same sex partnership laws come into effect in England and Wales. | | | RTE.ie Entertainment - John & partner's civil union takes place |
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| | West Virginia in the Civil War |
| | West Virginia became the 35th state of the Union on June 20, 1863. | | | Created in the midst of the Civil War, West Virginia provided to the Union Army 31,872 regular army troops, 133 sailors and marines, and 196 United States Colored Troops, during that terrible conflict of 1861-1865. | | | This web site is dedicated to the honor and memory of the Civil War soldiers, sailors, and marines of West Virginia. |
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| | Confederate States, Civil War Regimental Histories, Directory |
| | Official Civil War Atlas [Commercial site, but searchable; type in "Civil War"; also searchable by location, battle name, and/or plate number] | | | Battles and Leaders of the Civil War [e-book, 4 vols. | | | You may also visit the Directory of Civil War Naval Forces (Confederate and Union). |
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| | Union & Confederate Officer's Jackets |
| | By 1862, Maine, Vermont, and Wisconsin were told to stop giving out gray uniforms. | | | When the Civil War started in 1861, the Confederate Army did not have one style of uniform for all soldiers. | | | It was in 1862 that the Union Army made strict rules about uniforms. |
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| | American Civil War Research Database |
| | Search the Database for American Civil War ancestors for only $10 | | | American Civil War Research Database statistics as of November 22, 2005: | | | Officer profiles: 1,010; Civil War Soldier Photographs: 15,162 |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) |
| | The ACLU of Eastern Missouri welcomed National Executive Director Anthony Romero as we celebrated together and honored the Civil Liberties Award recipients: Senator Joan Bray and Reverend Phillip Duvall as well as Gene Buder Award recipient is Brad Pierce. | | | American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU-EM) | | | Master of Ceremonies for the event was ACLU-EM Board President Ray Hartmann with closing remarks by ACLU-EM Executive Director Brenda Jones. |
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| | Kentucky, in which men from Southeastern Kentucky served. | | | Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Kentucky Department | | | Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War |
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| | ACLU :: Take Issue, Take Charge :: Reproductive Rights |
| | In recent years, we have witnessed an unprecedented attack on civil liberties with reproductive rights as a prime target. | | | BOSTON - The American Civil Liberties Union and Jenner & Block LLP applauded the federal government's decision today to suspend the flow of taxpayer dollars funding the Silver Ring Thing, a nationwide ministry that uses abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education as a means to bring "unchurched" students to Jesus Christ. | | | NEW YORK â“ The American Civil Liberties Union launched a Web site today, TakeIssueTakeCharge.org, as part of a national grassroots campaign to protect reproductive freedom. |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) |
| | - Criminal Justice - Cyber-Liberties - Death Penalty - Discrimination - Disability Rights - Free Speech - Immigrants' Rights - LGBT Rights - Patriot Act - Police Practices - Prisons - Privacy - Racial Justice - Religious Liberty - Reproductive Freedom - Security & Civil Liberties - Student & Youth Rights - Voting Issues | | | On Wednesday, December 14th, the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition, Project VOICE of the American Friends Service Committee, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania will sponsor the Philadelphia Premier of Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border, with a panel discussion to follow. |
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| | Civil War Union Army Regimental Histories - the Regulars |
| | ORGOTTEN in many histories of the Civil War is the role of the Regular Army during the War Between the States. | | | Also provided are rosters of the names of the actual enlisted men serving under each Union regular regiment. | | | The following regimental histories have been abstracted from T.F. Rodenbough's 1896 History of the Army of the United States. |
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| | Generalizations regarding the U. S. Army Uniform of the Civil War |
| | Generalizations regarding the U. Army Uniform of the Civil War | | | The uniform worn by the U.S. Army during the Civil War of 1861-1865 developed over a long period of time and is the result of many different traditions and influences. | | | For a complete discussion of the Chasseur uniform see the articles by Don Troiani beginning in the XXVI (2) issue of the magazine North South Trader's Civil War. |
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| | Civil Unions and Related Services from VermontCivilUnion.com |
| | The new Civil Union law goes into effect July 1, 2000. | | | PFLAG has more than 80,000 members, donors and supporters and 440 chapters and affiliates across the United States. | | | While not carrying the term of marriage, the CU law does offer many of the same benefits of marriage. |
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| | Vermont Secretary of State - Municipal |
| | Vermont’s civil union law requires the Secretary of State’s office to provide town clerks with a publication to give to people who apply for a civil union licenses. | | | You can also obtain these documents by contacting the town clerk in the town where the marriage or union was registered. | | | Completing the Marriage or Civil Union Certificate: Guidelines for Officiants |
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| | USATODAY.com - Sound of shifting ground |
| | Last year, running for re-election, and with a keen awareness of the broader public mood, President Bush parted ways with the Republican platform: "I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union," he said. | | | That seemed to be the case Wednesday as flamboyant rock star Elton John, 58, became one of the first people to take advantage of a new British law allowing same-sex couples to enter into civil unions. | | | A handful of states accept or are considering allowing civil partnerships; others have moved in the opposite direction. |
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| | americancivilwar.info |
| | Original American Civil War Era newspapers for as low as $20. | | | West Virginia's importance during the Civil War cannot be overstated, and West Virginia traditions has information and schedules regarding Civil War reenactments, battle sites, and more. | | | Discover the details of your ancestor’s service in online Civil War pension records and detailed service records. |
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| | The Civil War for Kids |
| | We have drawings of Civil War uniforms, short biographies of Civil War leaders, images of other leaders, links to other Civil War Sites, and activity sheets for you to do. | | | Huber's class at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, New York have been learning about the Civil War. | | | Our bar graphs contain data about the North and the South in 1861 when the Civil War began. |
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