By Frank Beardsley 2009-12-9 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-four the Union of northern states and the Confederacy of southern states were still fighting.The Civil War began in eighteen six...
By Frank Beardsley and Christine Johnson 2009-12-2 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-four, the battle at Cold Harbor in Virginia ended a month of fighting by the Union Army of the Potomac....
By Frank Beardsley 2009-11-18 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-three, Union forces defeated Confederate forces in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War -- the Battle of Gettysbur...
By Frank Beardsley 2009-11-11 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In November of eighteen sixty-three, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He went there to make a speech at a cerem...
By Frank Beardsley 2009-11-4 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. America's civil war in the eighteen sixties did not have the full support of the people. Many said they did not care who won -- North or South. Th...
By Frank Beardsley 2009-10-28 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years. Both sides felt the...
By Frank Beardsley 2009-10-21 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Two years of a bitter, bloody civil war started to show their effects on both the Confederate states of the South and the Union states of the...
By Frank Beardsley 2009-10-14 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the early weeks of eighteen sixty-three, the American Civil War took a new political direction. President Abraham Lincoln had announced the...
By VOA 2009-10-7 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union. President Abraham Lincoln firmly believed that a state di...
By VOA 2009-9-30 Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. By the summer of eighteen sixty-two, the American Civil War had been going on for more than a year. The Union had won some battles. The Confederacy had won ot...
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