ASIN: B009JKH9HO
Publisher: James Butler
Pages: 35
It was 1865 and the War Between The States was over. More than 750,000 men, women and children were killed during the war. The names of more than half of them were unknown. Almost no records were kept of the dead and many of them were buried in the field of battle in unmarked graves. It was a sad time for the whole country. To the government’s surprise, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Even though the country was going through a healing period, the government continued its attack on the Indian tribes. The government had freed all of the slaves, but rounded up the different Indian tribes and forced them to live on reservations. It was a different time and people had to be tough physically and mentally to survive.
The people of the western states had very little to do with the war other than to ship gold from California to the government in the East. Railroads were built all the way to ...
