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Library of Congress2004

Race and older age mortality evidence from Union Army veterans

"This paper uses the records of the Union Army to compare the older age mortality experience of the first black and white cohorts who reached middle and late ages in the twentieth century. Blacks faced a greater risk of death from all causes, especially in large cities, from infectious and parasitic diseases, from genito-urinary disease, and from heart disease, particularly valvular heart disease. Blacks' greater risk of death was the result both of the worse conditions in which they lived at the time of their deaths and of their lifelong poorer nutritional status and higher incidence of infectious disease. Compared to the 1821-40 black cohort, the 1841-50 black cohort was both under greater stress at a young age and had higher older age mortality rates"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

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Library of Congress2004

Shame and ostracism Union Army deserters leave home

"During the Civil War not all men served honorably and this was known by everyone in their communities. We study how shame and ostracism affect behavior by examining whether men who deserted from the Union Army, and who faced no legal sanctions once the war was over, returned home or whether they moved and re-invented themselves. We build a unique panel data set that provides us with a control group for deserters because we can identify men who deserted but then returned to fight with their companies. We find that, compared to non-deserters and returned deserters, deserters were more likely to move both out of state and further distances. This effect was stronger for deserters from pro-war communities. When deserters moved they were more likely to move to anti-war states than non-deserters. Our study provides a rare test of the empirical implications of emotion. While both shame and ostracism would push deserters out of their home community, we find no evidence that deserters faced economic sanctions"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

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Library of Congress1884

The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Series I, volume XI, part I. Reports

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

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Library of Congress1885

The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Series I, volume XI, part III. Correspondence, etc

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

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Library of Congress1879

In the Senate of the United States. January 31, 1879. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1744.) The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom were referred the resolutions of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, in favor of an appropriation for continuing and completing the history of the Battle of Gettysburg, by John B. Batchelder, and the letter of the Secretary of War communicating, in answer to the Senate resolution of March 4, 1874, information concerning the data from which the positions of the troops were added to the engineer's maps of the Gettysburg battlefield, recently published, having had the same under consideration, submit the following report

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Library of Congress1864

Letter of the secretary of war, Transmitting report on the organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, under the command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, from July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862.

At head of title; 38th Congress 1st session. Senate. Ex. doc. no. (Not included in the numbered Congressional series of Senate executive documents) Issued also as House ex. doc. 15, 38th Congr., 1st sess. (Congressional serial no. 1187) "In the Senate ... February 17, 1864. Resolved, that five thousand additional copies of the McClellan report, without accompanying maps and documents, be printed for the ise of the Senate."--Note, p. [1] Also available in digital form. LAC tnb 2020-10-27 update (2 cards)

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Library of Congress1913

Military history of the Third Division, Ninth Corps, Army of the Potomac

By authority of Battlefield Commission, July, 1910. With a record of the Division Association, organized Harrisburg, March 25, 1890, and dedication of equestrian statue to General John F. Hartranft, Commander Division May 12, 1899, and the dedication of the monuments at Fort Stedman and Mahone on Petersburg battle field, May 19th, 1909, with the addresses delivered there by President Taft and others. Also available in digital form.

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