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BBC History Magazine

HIDDEN HISTORIES

“The deadliest civil war ever fought is now almost completely forgotten”

In the 1860s, the world watched in horror as the United States slid into the most deadly conflict in that nation’s history. One and a half centuries later, and the memory of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and the great armies that fought in blue and grey uniforms still burns bright in our collective memory. Yet in the same years another civil

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