Insurrection in the cradle of abolitionism

The 1863 Boston draft riot. By Joe Regan During 1–5 May 1863, fighting raged in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, between the Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Outnumbered by more than two to one, General Robert E. Lee had caught the Union army of Joseph Hooker off guard at the village ... Read more

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