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  1. "Boys, look out! Here comes old Stonewall or an old hare!"-Anonymous
  2. The National Park Service app for Boston NHS & Boston African American NHS now available on ITunes. Search for NPS Boston
  3. Next Black Heritage Tour goes out at 2pm. Tour begins at the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Beacon Street. 90 minutes
  4. George Armstong Custer's class rank (out of 34 cadets) upon his graduation from West Point in June 1861: 34
  5. The Black Heritage Trail: Rangers will be offering daily tours beginning Memorial Day (May 28th- labor Day... fb.me/1LGK0WI3b
  6. The cost, in dollars, of the rifles and muskets purchased by the War department between January 1, 1861 and June 30, 1866: 30,990,623
  7. Next Black Heritage Tour goes out at 2pm. Tour begins at the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Beacon Street. 90 minutes
  8. Time to give Boston’s Black Heritage Trail its due ow.ly/1MCZy0
  9. Next Black Heritage Tour goes out at 2pm. Tour begins at the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Beacon Street. 90 minutes
  10. The National Parks: America's Best Idea usat.ly/KGMcVp
  11. The number of Union Troops captured at Shiloh in April 1862, who would become the first inmates of Macon's Camp Oglethorpe: 800
  12. The percentage of public school teachers in North Carolina that were women in 1859: 8%
  13. Next Black Heritage Tour goes out at 2pm. Tour begins at the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Beacon Street. 90 minutes
  14. "War means fighting and fighting means killing."-Nathan Bedford Forrest
  15. "Through the defense of African slavery (thus it is commonly called) is left to the South, the North are jointly... fb.me/1wWiAw5Pv
  16. Next Black Heritage Tour goes out at 2pm. Tour begins at the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Beacon Street. 90 minutes
  17. The total number of immigrants to the United States in 1862: 91,985
  18. Black Heritage Trail: Daily Memorial Day (May 28th - Labor Day (September 3rd) at 10, 12, and 2pm
  19. Mark Your Calendar: The Civil Rights to Civil War Tour will on Saturdays June 2nd -Sept 1st @11am. Departs from Faneuil Hall