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Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Military history

Brooklyn’s Contribution to the Union Victory Over the Confederacy

Ava Williams -
The Civil War was the culmination of a long-standing conflict between the Union and the Confederacy, a struggle between the future and the past,...
Military history

How Brooklyn Honored the Heroes of the War of Independence – The History of the Service Medal

Mila Carrie -
After General Robert E. Lee’s army surrendered in April 1865, many Union volunteers from Brooklyn finally returned home. Soon after, then-Mayor Alfred M. Wood...
About the Mayor

One of Brooklyn’s Most Popular Mayors Who Could Have Been President

Charlotte Wilson -
Growing up watching local politics and law in action, it was no surprise that young Henry Cruse Murphy graduated from Columbia College and pursued...
Military history

Brooklyn During the Civil War: Thousands of Residents on the Battlefield

Harry Taylor -
The U.S. Civil War changed the course of American history. President Abraham Lincoln and the army preserved the Union and ended slavery in the...

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