Historians have verified that Emma Edmonds, as Franklin Thompson, did serve in the units she mentioned at the times she said. Historically, the pestilential swamps of the Suud discouraged expansion into the deeper south of the country.

Although Egypt claimed all of the present Sudan during most of the 19th century, it was unable to establish effective control over southern Sudan, which remained an area of fragmented tribes subject to frequent attacks by slave raiders.

Civil War flags were made of weighted silk and painted with oil based paints. Silk is a "natural product and due to weather, battle and age the silk has become brittle and has in many cases "turned to dust.".

Many of the flags are now beyond salvage and with the passing of time eventually all of them will disintegrate if not properly conserved.

Civil wars generally result in higher casualties per country than other types of wars.

The opponents are usually representatives of the same culture, society or nationality, and contest the right for the control of political power, and with it the right to formulate policy for future administration of the population and resources of the territory where the dispute takes place.

Civil wars generally result in higher casualties per country than other types of wars.

The opponents are usually representatives of the same culture, society or nationality, and contest the right for the control of political power, and with it the right to formulate policy for future administration of the population and resources of the territory where the dispute takes place.

President Lincoln had issued a call for 300,000 more troops, and Gettysburg was preparing to answer that call.

The ad which appeared that day appealed to the "patriotic, able-bodied men of Adams County to come forward immediately and enroll themselves in the defense of the Union." Thus began the recruitment of Companies B and G of the 138th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Go back to Gettysburg, (1863), where Barbie tends to the wounded soldiers. She comes with a nurse's cape, cap, bag, stand and small storybook. This article was written by a long time student of the late Rebellion and one of the true "experts " on the Battle of Gettysburg.