November 20, 2009 | Posted by javal During the Civil War, on October 25, 1864 three significant battles occurred in Kansas and the first of these has three names. In the pages of history, it was called the Battle of “The Mounds”, the Battle of Trading Post and the Battle of the Marais des Cygnes. To make matters worse or more difficult [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal Nearly 150 years ago, members of the 2nd Colorado Infantry Regiment fought in what was to become known as the Battle of Honey Springs near Checotah.
This weekend, a re-enactment group that has taken the name of the Colorado unit will be walking in their forebears’ footsteps as they practice drills and, on Saturday afternoon, demonstrate [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal The 38th North Carolina Troops, Company B, will be at Horne Creek Living Historical Farm in Pinnacle this weekend to provide visitors with a taste of what life was like during the Civil War era.
This new program at Horne Creek will take place on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no entry [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal It is the seminal event in U.S. History and 150 years later how to commemorate the American Civil War in 2011 still creates a stir.
Virginia is a little bit ahead of other states in their plans for commemorating the war, but there is a conscious effort not to make the same mistakes as 1961, the [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal Civil War veteran Elihu Legro’s reburial has been delayed until May.
Those with insight into the reburial process say the postponement could be for the best.
“I’m kind of relieved,” said Dan Meehan of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. “We want to have it perfect.”
Meehan, City Manager John Scruton, historian Richard Longo, Mayor [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal The Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia will present the first of its Annual Civil War Lecture Series events on Thursday. The evening’s talk will focus on the secession in northwest Georgia.
The lecture, to be delivered by assistant professor of history Keith Hebert of the University of West Georgia, will take place at 7 p.m. [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal Visitors may see inside of a Civil War gunpowder magazine when the Jefferson Parish Historical Commission hosts its third annual Camp Parapet Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the the end of Arlington Street, to the east of Causeway Boulevard near River Road in Old Jefferson.
The event is free and open [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
November 19, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, was formally designated as Dedication Day by a joint resolution of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on August 7, 1946. Through the efforts of Congressman Todd R. Platts (PA-19) a 2009 resolution (HRes736) was introduced and passed by unanimous vote of the House of Representatives [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal Elvatrice Belsches found the evidence on microfilm and Tuesday night presented an enlarged copy to the president of Virginia Union University.
What she found, on Roll 15 Frame 0366 from National Archives records, was further documentation “to substantiate the incredible story” of how the university grew from “the nefarious slave trade to become a beacon of [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga invites the public to attend the 17th annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression. The symposium is scheduled for November 12-14 and is free to the public. Thursday night sessions are held at The Read House, and Friday and Saturday presentations are in [...]
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