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Civil War Military Service and the Claims of Citizenship
The Civil War brought both opportunity and challenge to thousands of Americans faced with the choice to serve the Union or the Confederacy. For some groups, among them African Americans and the recently arrived Irish, the war offered a unique opportunity to further define a role for themselves in the Great American Experiment. For others, it frequently offered only conflict and broken promises.
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