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af Missy Tipton Green, Paulette Ledbetter ...

Serier serie Images of America
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af Kathleen M. Fink, Courtland Loomis ...

Serier serie Images of America
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af David L. Keller ...

Serier serie Civil War Series
If you were a Confederate prisoner during the Civil War, you might have ended up in this infamous military prison in Chicago.More Confederate soldiers died in Chicago's Camp Douglas than on any Civil War battlefield. Originally constructed in 1861 to train forty thousand Union soldiers from the northern third of Illinois, it was converted to a prison camp in 1862. Nearly thirty thousand ... Læs mere

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af Nancy Disher Baird ...

Serier serie Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
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