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This historic survival meal was given to soldiers during the American Civil War, but its roots go much deeper than that.

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Washington native James Smallwood had had the old musket of another era for ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

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