... . Often, injured soldiers were propped against fences or tree stumps to prevent them from drowning in the swampy muck. Their groans attracted search parties, who took them back to Savage Station on stretchers, horse, and the occasional ambulance. Since ambulances were then just regular wagons used for medical purposes, wounded men and medical supplies were frequently not properly transported, because the ... ...

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... two corps under Hardee to counter the enemy, unaware of the difference in numbers. The Southern troops were immediately repulsed upon their offensive attack August 31st and retreated to Lovejoy Station nearby. Union troops succeeded in cutting the Confederate supply line on September 1st leaving Atlanta and her inhabitants helpless. Southern troops began evacuating the city and burning anything of military ... ...

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... abolitionist that fought hard for the abolishment of slavery was Fredrick Douglass, an ex-slave who escaped from slavery and urged other black people to do so. Douglass became the "station-master and conductor" of the Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York which helped fugitive slaves escape to the north since the southerners had congress pass the Fugitive Slaves Act in ... ...

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... election of abolitionists to public office"4 and intended to destruct all slavery in America. Douglas also took anti-slavery matters into his own hands and turned his Rochester house into a station for the Underground Railroad, where he and other antislavery activists helped many fleeing slaves reach their safe ground in Canada. Douglass played a crucial role during the civil war; it was ... ...

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