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The following day after Nathaniel Banks’ Union forces were defeated at Mansfield, Richard Taylor’s Confederates attacked Banks at Pleasant Hill,…

On Friday, October 9, 1863 Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began crossing the Rapidan River in an attempt to move against…

On Monday, October 12, 1863 Abraham Lincoln wired General George Meade, asking “What news this morning?” Rumors had reached Washington, D.C. about the…

During the early days of October 1863 Confederate cavalry raiders actively harassed Union forces throughout the South. Confederate cavalry under General…

On the last day of June 1863, in Pennsylvania Robert E. Lee, determined to confront the Union army at Cashtown, moved toward that objective. Lee ordered…

On July 1, 1863 when Confederate General Henry Heth’s advancing brigades met Union cavalry on the Chambersburg-Gettysburg road four miles outside of…

July 3, 1863: Gettysburg’s third day dawned as the Federals prepared to be attacked by Lee’s Confederates. Flanking attacks had been tried fruitlessly…

In a dual-language classroom, sometimes you're the student and sometimes you're the teacher. Here's what it's like for 6-year-old Merari.

Employers created 431,000 jobs last month. And the unemployment rate last month fell to 3.6%, a pandemic low.

The Labor Department on Friday said the nation's jobless rate fell to 6.7 percent as U.S. employers added 74,000 jobs to payrolls while more Americans stopped looking for work in December. In November, the unemployment rate was 7 percent.