We are taught about Civil War politicians and gene...  ...still felt today. For example, in the episode The Soldiers , Lauren Cook Wike sued for the right to participa...  ...ght to participate in Civil War reenactments as a soldier , after being denied in 1989 because there were no...  ...press coverage. And th...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...eborah grew up to be much taller than the average woman of her time (5' 0"), and, in fact, she was taller...  ...idea. Deborah Sampson wasn't the average looking woman of the time, and she was not the kind of girl the...  ...or units on the move. The cons...