Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (McPherson, 1988)
1861 · Resource
James McPherson's Pulitzer-winning single-volume history of the American Civil War.
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Around 1861
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Crimean War (1853)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)