November 20, 2009 | Posted by javal Many people in Northwest Georgia did not want to secede from the United States in the months leading up to the Civil War, University of West Georgia historian Keith Herbert said.
“But only a small few outright opposed it,” Herbert said Thursday night at Dalton State College’s James E. Brown Center.
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November 20, 2009 | Posted by javal A New York City gallery has auctioned over 200 rare postage stamps to raise $3.2 million for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.
Wall Street money manager William Gross’ collection of Civil War-era Confederate states and early Canadian stamps sold Thursday at the Spink Shreves Galleries of New York and Dallas.
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November 20, 2009 | Posted by javal After citizens voiced concerns about the tarnished state of two plaques honoring Civil War and World War I veterans in the Richmond County Court House, a Charlotte company has restored them to their original glory.
Community Services Director B.K. Jones said the county hired Complete Stone and Tile, Inc. out of Charlotte because the price was [...]
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November 20, 2009 | Posted by javal It would have been a typical day at Fort Pulaski, the sight of men in uniforms and top hats, wagon wheels and pop-up tents. A typical day, if it was 1865.
But we didn’t go back in time or fall in a black hole, this is the latest location shoot of the film The Conspirator.
The civil war-era [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal A windshield tour of Pea Ridge National Military Park is how most visitors see the Civil War battlefield where muskets and cannons roared during the Battle of Pea Ridge.
Hikers on two feet enjoy a longer, more detailed look at the national park, including forests, meadows and a hidden lake that visitors on the seven-mile auto [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal About 30 students huddled around Herschel Stroud, otherwise known as Baltzer, a Union Civil War soldier. He sorted through his haversack filled with the supplies he took with him to war, displaying them to the King Elementary School students who gathered in the library. His wife, Jacqueline Stroud, who introduced herself as Amanda, stood off [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal A Civil War era log cabin built along present day West Virginia 14 was moved Wednesday to Henderson Hall where it will become a part of the 19th century plantation.
Scott and Sherry Lamp arranged with Dave McKain of Henderson Hall to move the 18-by-24 foot cabin from their property near the Glendale Gym to the [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal From the first day of the Civil War, there were people, both in the North and in the South, who opposed their governments’ war policies.
George Frederick Root described what he saw in Chicago on the day when, in his words, “the WAR burst upon us!” He saw “the bustling, cheery life of Chicago became suddenly [...]
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November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal NASCAR fans are helping the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion get a small facelift.
The state is spending $49,675 for a private contracting crew to repaint the four front columns and to do other maintenance work on the porch.
That’s almost as much as the $50,000 the state spent to build the two-story home in 1842.
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by javal A boy who was mocked by his disbelieving classmates after he met former President Lincoln has sweet revenge more than a century later.
Eight-year-old George Patten met the commander-in-chief with his father, a journalist.
The American Civil War leader wrote to the young boy, after his school friends refused to believe he had met the 16th President.
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