Excerpt from Public Laws of the United States of America, Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, 1864-1865: Carefully Collated With the Ori

Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the sp

Liquor was essential to military culture as well as healthcare regimens in both the Union and Confederate armies. But its widespread use and misuse caused sever