Opinion: What the Civil War was about
It wasn’t about states’ rights, except to the extent that Southern states were trying to force Northern states to help maintain slavery.
(Harpers Weekly) This drawing from a Harpers Weekly edition in 1863 depicts the Battle of Island Mound on Oct. 29, 1862 in Missouri during the American Civil War.
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