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The Union League of Philadelphia and the Civil War

Written by Barbara Mitnick in the Civil War in Pennsylvania category and the Summer 2013 issue Topics in this article: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, Alexander Henry, American Civil War, American Revolution, Andrew Gregg Curtin, Andrew Jackson, Battle of Gettysburg, California, civil rights, Confederates, Copperheads, Edward Everett, Edwin M. Stanton, Emancipation Proclamation, Fairmount Park, Fort Sumter, George Gordon Meade, George W.Woodward, George Washington, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Homestead Act, John Templeton, lumber, Maine, Mary Todd Lincoln, Morton McMichael, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Princeton University, Republican Party, Robert E. Lee, Sidney George Fisher, Simon Cameron, slavery, South Carolina, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Union League of Philadelphia, United States Colored Troops, William Henry Seward, William M. Meredith, Zachary Taylor

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Summer 2013

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Summer 2013

Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine Summer 2013 Cover
On the Cover:
Wives and even families sometimes accompanied soldiers to the front. In this 1861 photo (one of a pair of stereographs), the 31st (later the 82nd) Pennsylvania Infantry passes time at Queen's farm near Fort Massachusetts/Slocum, five miles north of the White House (Library of Congress, LC-B811-2405 A & B)

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