November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
United States Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) introduced the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act of 2009 on October 22 to establish a Commission to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The legislation has been referred to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee of which Senator Landrieu is a [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
Hunter Mill Road was as popular a shortcut during the Civil War as it is today.
“The reason [the Virginia Department of Transportation] wants to widen the road is that it still holds the same attributes it held 150 years ago,” said James Lewis, a retired Xerox salesman turned historian.
Running from Route 123 in Oakton to [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
The longtime leader of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who fought key preservation battles in Chicago and dramatically expanded his organization’s mission, announced Tuesday that he will retire from the job next year.
Richard Moe, 72, a Minnesota native who once served as chief of staff to Vice President Walter Mondale, made the announcement at [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
Rob Eichler, a boom operator for the city of Petoskey, lifted a 1,200 pound Civil War cannon out of the backyard of a Petoskey resident’s home Tuesday afternoon.
According to officials from the Petoskey Department of Public Safety, who located the cannon today after a month-long Internet investigation as to its whereabouts, describe it as an [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
5th Annual Skirmish at Zollicoffer will be this weekend, November 7-8, 1/4 mile from Bluff City Middle School on Old Elizabethton Road. This is Sullivan County’s biggest Civil War event and was featured in the opening of the movie “Freedom” a couple of years ago.
Hosted by 61st TN Company K Infantry CSA, reenacting group and [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
Terry Thomann, director of the Civil War Life museum, said yesterday that he plans to close the attraction in the Southpoint I center and in two weeks open a store at 829 Caroline St., in Fredericksburg to sell Civil War-related books, souvenirs, T-shirts and gifts.
He plans to eventually open a full-scale museum for his Civil [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
Two more Lincoln Wayside Exhibits will be dedicated next week in Jacksonville.
The exhibits will be the fourth and fifth of 10 Looking for Lincoln displays being dedicated in the city to show the connection between it and Abraham Lincoln.
There are 210 wayside exhibits in 50 communities in central Illinois.
The newest exhibits honor Richard Yates, the [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
They raised money selling food at county fairs and stitching names into quilts for 10 cents. After several years of hard work, a post-Civil War auxiliary group finally raised the $3,000 needed to erect a statue in honor of fallen veterans.
One hundred years later, that monument still stands in the Woodstock Square.
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
Officials at Fort Monroe say experts have unearthed an 11-foot-long cannon from the 1860s as part of a four-month munitions probe.
The probe by a team of environmental and unexploded ordnance experts is in preparation for Fort Monroe’s closure in September 2011.
Officials say the Civil War-era cannon is believed to be a four-and-a-half-inch ordnance rifle. It [...]
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November 4, 2009 | Posted by javal
Monday Nov. 4 1861
STONEWALL SEEKS SHENANDOAH SHOWDOWN
Thomas Jonathan Jackson, who since the Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) had become known by the nickname of “Stonewall,” got a new assignment today. The continuing challenge of organizing both civil government and military commands was continuing in the new Confederacy. There had just been created a new District, [...]
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