During World War Two, Eugene McCarthy worked as a technical aide for a military intelligence office of the War Department.

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He was afraid Confederate forces in Virginia might try to capture Washington in the first days of the war.

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He told Grant that his men would promise to stay out of the war if permitted to return to their homes.

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President Franklin Roosevelt's wife Eleanor planted what was called a "Victory Garden" as part of the war effort in nineteen forty-three.

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He could not be sure of their support if he declared that the purpose of the war was to free the slaves.

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In the early years of the war, Confederate forces had moved through the valley to strike northern territory.

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He closed his speech with the hope that the nation would come out of the war with greater unity than ever before.

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To look at our responsibilities for the cost of the war, which approaches two hundred fifty billion dollars.

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By the end of the war, more than two hundred thousand blacks had joined the armed services.

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This part of the war -- the sea war is often forgotten, but it was important.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

In the early months of the war, Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president, did not even have guns enough for the men in his army.

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The war was ended. Now,men could look about them and count the cost of the war.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

There was fighting in the streets! An official of the War Department described the situation.

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The announcement came the same week as the eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan.

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