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Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...
When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could ...
We’re taught in school that the American Civil War ... became the final Confederate general in the field to surrender. Most Cherokee had supported the Union during the war.
It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It was on April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. On April 14, ...
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - What’s now known as the Glencoe Museum in Radford used to be the home of Civil War Confederate General Gabriel Wharton. The home was passed down to his family.
A rare artifact from the Civil ... the Civil War. It marked the Confederate Army's last major attempt to invade the North. And Pickett's charge was really considered the focal point of that battle. It ...
The agency said the Levittown team logo was, for many years, a bearded man dressed in a gray Civil War uniform clutching a Confederate ... volunteers to fill their ranks. Robert Leonard, a ...
exactly four years to the day since Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard ordered his artillery to fire upon Fort Sumter — beginning the American Civil War — “the [final] business ...
LION OF THE CONFEDERACY (REMOVED from Oakland Cemetery) For a city that saw so much Civil War fighting ... the spot where Union General John B. McPherson was killed by Confederate forces the ...
Scores of high-spirited civilians carried picnic baskets and champagne to the battlefield to watch what would turn out to be the first major land engagement of the Civil War. Shown here is the ...