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Gardner's title for this image is "Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge."

Signs posted on a burned-out business, destroyed during the riots of 1992. Photo date: May 2, 1992.

Gives us a view of what a person was reading in Louisiana during the Civil War.

We are able to see what people were reading on the newspaper in Minnesota

"Map of the Battlefield of Antietam. On September 17, 1862, the battle was trumpeted over the arsenal explosion in the newspapers across the nation."

"Map of the battlefield of Antietam. No. 1. This map shows the position of the Union and Confederate forces on the morning of Sept. 17th, 1862, prior to the battle of Antietam which opened at daybreak"

It talks about the debt that the Civil War is possibly going to leave. It also mentions that many are being wounded because of the war.

This page of the newspaper talks about "rebel Inhumanity."

Alexander Parker Crittenden letter to his wife, Clara

Capt. James A. Sayles letter to his sweetheart, Florence Lee