Battles over battlefields

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The need to protect the site of Civil War as state or federal parks is discussed. It is mentioned that the in U.S the civil war heritage is in danger as more than one third of all principal civil war battlefields were either lost or were hanging into existence, and points out that within 10 years, the two thirds of the principal battlefields is expected to be lost, if there was no national policy on civil war battlefields preservation.

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Doing time: how Confederate POWs weathered captivity

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Archaeological study indicates that many of the Confederate soldiers imprisoned during the Civil War suffered from acute malnutrition. Around 300 of the 9,000 prisoners in the Johnson's Island camp died of disease or starvation. Some ate candles purchased from the prison's sutler, while others ate rats captured from the camp latrines.

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Privy business; chamber pots and sexpots in colonial life

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What household inventories reveal about chamber pots in that period's life is discussed. The frequent use of euphemisms for these objects, or their symbolic link to female sexuality, may be the causes of their apparently infrequent listings. They may also have been subsumed into broad categories such as earthenwares or pewter.

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