November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
New calculations indicate about 450,000 fewer people than originally estimated actually visited the Gettysburg Battlefield in 2008 — which means Gettysburg National Military Park overestimated the figure by about 42 percent.
By plugging some different numbers into its National Park Service-approved formula, the park now estimates that 1,072,954 people visited the battlefield last year.
In April, the [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has taken up a banner of history that has fallen at least on the field of battle.
She and fellow Democratic Sen. Jim Webb, of Virginia, have introduced the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act of 2009 “to establish a commission to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War,” a release [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
The Fort Scott National Historic Site will soon undergo its yearly transformation for a long-standing holiday tradition.
The Candlelight Tour, an event that takes place each holiday season at the historic site, has been a tradition in Fort Scott for nearly 30 years. During the tour, visitors will be able to watch volunteer re-enactors dressed in [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
As a little girl, Cathy Beeler loved playing with cap guns.
“I even got busted by my mom for sneaking one into a little pink purse and taking it to church when I was about 4 years old,” Beeler said. “My father condoned it all until I was about 9 or 10, when he threw them [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
As students at the College of William and Mary, we all live in the “Historic Triangle.” Besides being college students, we are local residents and voters, and we have a vested interest in what goes on in Williamsburg. Currently, the Williamsburg Planning Commission is considering a project that will potentially develop 337 acres of land. [...]
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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
Not since Ron Maxwell’s “Gods and Generals” or Ken Burns’ PBS “The Civil War” series has there been such hubbub over a film featuring Fredericksburg.
The latest effort is a home-grown one, but has the polish of a professional production.
“Civil War Fredericksburg: Then & Now,” set for its public debut Thursday, appears to already be a [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
An act of heroism during the Civil War earned Sgt. William H. Carney the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African-American.
Now there is an especially appropriate memorial to him at the 128 Mill St. homestead that bears his name: A new flagpole with a flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol earlier [...]
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November 3, 2009 | Posted by javal
Gettysburg is an important historical midstate destination – but there’s a new skirmish being waged after the battlefield’s superintendent was reassigned for viewing porn on a work computer. The fight centers on how much government agencies have to tell you about how they’re spending your money.
Those who love Gettysburg are still smarting from news that [...]
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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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