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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: Seminar and Discussion Forum
The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

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[Paal Gulli]

Fortress Monroe, it bears mention, is where President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis was imprisoned for two years after the war.

Davis was released on $100,000 bail, paid on his behalf by three men, two of whom were Horace Greeley and (America’s original Robber Baron and founder of Vanderbilt University) Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.