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In the American Civil War one of the worst insurgent conflicts of modern history was fought between Confederate Partisan Rangers and Union Redlegs

(Part Two)the insurgent conflict fought between Confederate Partisan Rangers and Union Redlegs

Some unusual university and college team names are really not so strange when the stories behind them are known.

From the hills of the Ozarks to a cotton farm in northeast Arkansas, these books take the reader into various parts of the Natural State.

Arkansas seceded from the Union in 1861, but its population was divided on joining the Confederacy, so genealogists may find ancestors who fought for either side.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to be a compromise but instead outraged the North, gave America the Republican Party, "Bleeding Kansas," and led to civil war.