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Scholar of white supremacy visits all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed, says Richmond gets it right
Richmond put it up 50 years after the Confederacy's fall, with a plaque calling the Civil War an "unflinching struggle against overwhelming odds," fought "to clothe their country with freedom." ...
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Virginia Had More Civil War Battles Than Every Other State
The Civil War was the bloodiest ... and its economy was devastated. In 1865, after a long siege, Union troops finally succeeded in capturing the state's capital, Richmond, which also served ...
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'Two Tredegars' legacy as film tells of forgotten links
Six months after his death ... a film about Tredegar's namesake in Richmond, Virginia, and south Wales' little-known influence in the American civil war. It has been completed and is attracting ...
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Removing statues means 'our society is evolving,' say historians, activists
A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters in Richmond ... in the spotlight today were built long after the Civil War had ended in 1865. In fact, many were ...