After the War
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Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum
After the fighting stopped, the battles continued for many. Explore Reconstruction, and how Americans fought to rebuild their lives and their country after the Civil War.
Learn how the Pension Office forced women to fight for survival after the Civil War.
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Southern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows.
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Explore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.
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Discover the turbulent process of securing medical care for mentally ill African Americans after the Civil War.
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