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“The ‘Silent' (Democratic) Majority”

Topic:
Civil War, "Bloody Shirt," and Black Americans
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
Thomas Nast
Date:
August 28, 1880, pp. 552-553
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During the Civil War, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second attempted invasion of the North culminated in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, when Confederate and Union troops fought on the fields outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On July 4, Lee and his men were finally forced to retreat back to Confederate territory in Virginia. The Union victory at Gettysburg, along with the simultaneous surrender of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, is considered one of the major turning points of the Civil War. General Winfield Hancock commanded the Union Army Second Corps at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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