... he went to the grave twice a week and opened up the coffin and looked at his son. On July 11th, 1862 paper currency was approved. Secretary of the Treasury Chase put his picture on it instead of Lincoln's. Lincoln signed a bill creating the Congressional Medal of Honor. The Battle of Antietam happened on September 17th, 1862 and it was fought on the countryside near the town ... of Sharpsburg and along the Antietam Creek. It killed and wounded 26000 men; it was the bloodiest day in all of American history. The Sioux were starving and mad ... Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. It...

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... This is one of the most popular Civil War movies of all time. Until the Gettysburg Movie was made, this was the best Civil War movie of all time. In Glory, a colored division of soldiers is raised for service in the Union army. At first their use is limited to the realm of manual labor. ... plays an old man who later becomes a non commionsed officer, a Sergeant. The one thing that stands out about this movie most is the final battle scene. In the scenes climax, a colored division leads an attack on Confederate held Ft. Wagner. Confederates sit perched high above on their fort and ... a...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . He applied for an overseas assignment that would get him into combat, but his superiors valued his work as an organizer and trainer and put him in command of Camp Colt at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. One of the army's first tank corps was being formed there, and Eisenhower trained the fighting unit. In October 1918, he finally got orders to take the tanks to ... , General George C. Marshall, called Eisenhower to Washington, D.C., and put him in charge of the War Plans Division. After his successes of the Normandy invasion and the battle of the bulge he was promoted to the U. S. Army's high...

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• Grade Level: High School