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Part One: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Fucking 54th Regiment Massachusetts

In 1863, the Union is like, but we need Galloway to get us an army. They finally decided the 54th Regiment Massachusetts was the first all-black regiment of the war. And so instead it just becomes an organizer. Two of Frederick Douglass's sons were in the fucking 54th. I didn't know that. But I just blew my mind.

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