Tales from our cousins to the West, telling of their independence from Britain, their bloody civil war, their runaway prosperity, and the slender thread by which it hangs.
Two years into the American Civil War, the Union army responded to
a dispiriting defeat at Chancellorsville with a decisive and historic victory at Gettysburg.
Following a decisive victory in the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln urged
his supporters to make sure that liberty’s advantage was not squandered.
