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Civil War

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No, I’m not talking about the hypothetical one forthcoming. I wanted to share this map of the battles of the Civil War. These locations for battles are much fewer and farther between than I ever imagined (and check out the one weird battle in modern-day southern Idaho – – what gives, man?) Looks to me like Virginia was a dangerous place to hang out in the early 1860s.