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February 4, 2011 | Posted by javal
Standing in a gallery full of Civil War artifacts, Cara Sutherland wondered if Northeast Pennsylvanians of that era had any inkling how much their lives were about to change.
One hundred fifty years ago today, Southern delegates convened in Montgomery, Ala., to establish what would become the Confederacy. That news, however, would not reach the early [...]
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January 31, 2011 | Posted by javal
Bob Wandel is often a lone figure wandering around Oak Hill Cemetery. He sometimes recognizes other people when he’s out there, people who are walking their dogs or going for a run. But no one is doing what he’s doing — remembering, many times a week, the people who are buried there, and searching for [...]
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November 15, 2010 | Posted by javal
Twin forts built during the Civil War to stave off a Union attack during the Red River Campaign will open to the public this week as a historic site.
The Fort Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site in Pinveville is scheduled to open Thursday.
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August 11, 2010 | Posted by javal
Ruth Pasour Gryder’s father was wounded 148 years ago.
On Aug. 9, 1862 Pvt. David Rufus Pasour, then a 24-year-old in the Confederate States Army, was shot during a battle against Union forces at Cedar Run in northern Virginia. Pasour, who lost his arm as a result of that Civil War battle 148 years ago, is [...]
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July 29, 2010 | Posted by javal
The headstone of a former American slave and Union soldier was changed after the original said he was a member of the pro-slavery Confederate army.More than 100 of Samuel Brown’s descendants and Civil War buffs in period dress gathered at California’s Vallejo Sunrise Memorial Cemetery for the dedication of his new headstone.
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July 22, 2010 | Posted by javal
A dedication ceremony for the grave of Thomas Mason Francis, American Civil War Veteran, will be held at the Gilgandra Cemetery at 2pm, Saturday, October 2.
Enjoy an afternoon at Gilgandra, including some pioneering history, when descendants of Thomas Francis and their friends will be celebrating a memorial service.
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May 19, 2010 | Posted by javal
The Museum of the Confederacy is considering a presence at Fort Monroe in Hampton where it could showcase its collection of naval artifacts.
The Richmond-based museum has an expansion plan underway which would see three satellite locations being set up.
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May 18, 2010 | Posted by javal
Shortly after the Civil War, veterans of the North and South alike wished to celebrate the kinship and memory of their war experiences and sacrifices. Small groups of Limestone County Confederate veterans met informally to socialize and reminisce.
By 1888 they had begun to meet annually along Jacks Creek near where it intersects the Navasota River, [...]
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May 6, 2010 | Posted by javal
In the 1860s, Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and other “embedded” photographers made the Civil War the first major conflict to be extensively documented by photojournalists. Their dramatic battlefield images still haunt us today despite the use of equipment and techniques that are considered primitive by the standards of current technology.
Today, the Civil War Preservation Trust [...]
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April 27, 2010 | Posted by Xan
“Ride With the Devil” is Ang Lee’s lost movie.
Filmed around Kansas City in the spring and summer of 1998, this unconventional Civil War drama was caught in the fighting between incoming and outgoing regimes at Universal Pictures.
It received a cursory release in just a handful of markets (including Kansas City); according to the Internet Movie [...]
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