From time to time, Union officers would ride up the hill to report what a great victory their troops were winning.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

That is a promise." The new governor of Virginia gave the Republican response to the State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

They found him guilty. And they sentenced him to remain in a Union military prison until the end of the war.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

He said attacks will continue as revenge for the deaths of Somalis killed by African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

They passed a law saying no southerner could vote if he had taken part in the rebellion against the Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He also believed pro-slavery extremists would use Lincoln's election as an excuse to take Southern states out of the union.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

On May thirtieth, eighteen sixty-eight, flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Counterfeit medications are also a problem in the Middle East and in many countries of the former Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

President Abraham Lincoln asked the states of the Union for seventy-five thousand soldiers to help end the southern rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

European Union finance ministers are expected to talk about Greece when they meet in the Belgian capital next week.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

He attended the opening of a new burial place for the Union soldiers who had died in the great battle there.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

The Army of the Potomac the strongest of the Union armies had tried to seize Richmond, the Confederate capital.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.02