Category: Events
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By the spring of 1865, the United States had become a republic of graves. Wooden markers leaned over shallow trenches while work crews still moved among battlefields gathering the dead. Families searched casualty lists for familiar names, often receiving only fragments of information – a hurried burial location, a letter from a surviving comrade, or…
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1862 – the same day Union and Confederate armies clashed at Antietam – the quiet mill-town of Lawrenceville outside Pittsburgh was shattered by one of the deadliest industrial accidents of the Civil War. At approximately 2:00 p.m., three violent explosions ripped through the Allegheny Arsenal, killing 78 workers, most…
So Nobly Advanced 