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Blogs > Robin Lindley > Jim Downs: Civil War and Emancipation the "Greatest Biological Catastrophe of the Nineteenth Century."

Dec 17, 2013

Jim Downs: Civil War and Emancipation the "Greatest Biological Catastrophe of the Nineteenth Century."

by Robin Lindley

Full article: http://hnn.us/article/152434

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Jim Downs: Civil War and Emancipation the "﻿Greatest Biological Catastrophe of the Nineteenth Century."

Jim Downs: Civil War and Emancipation the "Greatest Biological Catastrophe of the Nineteenth Century."