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Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers

as well as supervision of an active farm operation

was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment

or captured

President Lincoln’s secretary of war

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps (Amy Murrell Taylor -BH) tea service Gettysburg Rebels: Five Native SonsEmbattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil Wars Slave Refugee Camps by Amy Murrell Taylor The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all.