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CONFEDERATE STAGING GROUND

Histories of the Civil War seldom pay much attention to Canada. But as Canadian journalist Julian Sher shows in this stirring work: Canada and Canadians played a pivotal role in the conflict.

Canada, of course, represented the freedom line

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