November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal Somewhere on the dark floor of the Texas City Ship Channel lies a piece of history that’s 146 years in the making.
Divers and archaeologists set course Wednesday to retrieve a Civil War-era relic, a 10,000-pound cannon from a Union gunboat blown up by its crew during the Battle of Galveston in 1863.
But the excitement of [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal The Army Corp of Engineers uncovered artifacts from a sunken civil war union gunboat in Galveston Wednesday.
The U.S.S. Westfield was intentionally sunk by union forces after it grounded in the Texas City Channel during the Battle of Galveston.
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal The Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN), Hernando Past and Southeastern Archaeological Services invite the public to Bayport Park from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday to watch archaeologists, FPAN staff and volunteer divers record possible shipwrecks located during recent remote sensing surveys.
Bayport was the site of two brief engagements between Confederate land troops and [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal Robert Todd Lincoln gave the Library of Congress a treasure trove of papers belonging to his father, Abraham Lincoln, but stipulated they not be opened until 21 years after his death.
John Sellers, the Lincoln curator at the library, said the documents were finally opened in 1947 with a great deal of celebration — perhaps a [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina.
The red palmetto flag — believed to be the one that flew over Morris Island on Jan. 9, 1861, when a battery of Citadel cadets fired on [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal In the fall of 1864, a U.S. Navy officer serving in the blockade of Charleston set out on a quest that would consume some men for more than a century.
He wanted to find the H.L. Hunley.
William L. Churchill, executive officer on a gunboat and a diver with much interest in submarine technology, had volunteered to [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal When Confederate troops on Roanoke Island surrendered to the Union army in February 1862, the flag used by one of the island units, the State Guards of Pasquotank, was never surrendered.
Unknown to the Union captors, the flag had been hidden inside the lining of an overcoat worn by Pvt. William Crawford Dawson Sr. of Elizabeth [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal People can view a signed copy of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation at the Center for History in South Bend through Dec. 21.
Lincoln signed 48 copies of the document to be sold as a fundraiser for an organization that served as the precursor to the American Red Cross. But Center for History Executive Director Randy [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal Two U.S. Colored Troops muster rolls from the Civil War will be showcased as part of Mercersburg’s Live & Learn Weekend, Friday and Saturday.
The U.S. Colored Troops were African-American soldiers who volunteered to serve in the U.S. armed forces beginning in 1863. Pennsylvania mustered more USCT troops (8,000 men) than any other state, including Massachusetts, [...]
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October 28, 2009 | Posted by javal A signficant collection of memorabilia from Ulysses S. Grant, the Union Army general who helped defeat the South in the Civil War, is now resting at Mississippi State University in Starkville.
John Marszalek, the Civil War scholar who oversees the archive, spoke to the Memphis Rotary Tuesday at the University Club of Memphis, calling it “the [...]
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