I wrote this awhile back, but for a lot of reasons this history remains really damn relevant.
The popular narrative gets the Civil War very, very, (very) wrong.
Conflicts leading up to, after and, yes, during the war were decided by insurgencies, riots, mass strikes, assassinations, coups and a lot of other things that don't fit into blocks of blue and grey shooting at each other.
Here's those realities through the life of Abraham Galloway, a Black radical abolitionist insurgent with an incredible story.