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	<title>Patrick G. Whalen &#187; Civil War</title>
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		<title>Our Battlefields and History are Endangered and Threatened</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 12:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Civil War Preservation Trust has just recently released its latest report, History Under Siege, which highlights the top battlefields that face the most eminent threat. These battlefields are all endangered and are listed in Alphabetical order because there is no way to guage the loss of any of these areas against another.]]></description>
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		<title>1860 Republican National Convention</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after the chaotic adjournment of the 1860 Democratic National Convention, there was wind in the sails of the Republican party. Convened in the newly constructed WigWam building in Chicago, Illinois in the middle of May, the Republicans began the process of selecting a platform and a nominee.]]></description>
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		<title>Ambrose Bierce</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambrose Bierce was among the great many combatants during the US Civil War and it was that experience that led this prolific writer to expose his readers to a deeper and darker side. So much so that he became known as "Bitter Bierce." His disdain for corruption and first-hand experience with the atrocities and maladies of warfare were a constant source of material and insight.]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic National Convention of 1860</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tensions had been building between the Northern and Southern political establishment long before the election of 1860. Such animosity and distrust carried over into the Democratic National Convention. In order to make an attempt to quell some of the Southern hostility towards Northern politicians, the decision was made to hold the convention in a Southern State.]]></description>
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		<title>Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I am becoming more firmly fixed in my conviction concerning this war that religion will be more intimately interwoven in its history than any which had ever preceded it," she wrote on October 13, 1862. "The men who have honored God are the men he has chosen to honor on almost every field."]]></description>
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