November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal When the Civil War broke out, many women were anxious to serve, too, although the Army only accepted male soldiers.
Some women became nurses at the battlefields and on the home front. An unknown number disguised themselves as men and served in the Army. Then there was Union Maj. Belle Reynolds, the only woman who was [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal “I believe the Battle of Deep Creek was one of the most significant Western North Carolina Civil War battles.”
So says Terrell Garren, a retired educator and Civil War history enthusiast, of a skirmish that took place in Swain County. For the last 20 years, Garren has researched the war’s history as it relates to the [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal Civil War records are especially important for family history researchers, as they come from a time before birth and death records were required.
In North Carolina, birth and death records were not required by law to be kept by the Register of Deeds until 1913. Prior to 1913, researchers have to rely on marriage, military, land, [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal The Navy and the Niagara County Sheriff’s honor guard turned out for the Veterans Day Recognition Ceremony at Wednesday’s meeting of the county Legislature.
Michael Huskey, the 14th known Niagara County person to win the Congressional Medal of Honor, was memorialized. Huskey’s action in 1863 while on the Steele’s Bayou/Deer Creek expedition earned him the nation’s [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal The Civil War lasted four years.
In another civil war of sorts, the town of James Island and the city of Charleston have been battling in the courts for 16 years over an island steeped in Civil War history.
And ironically, it appears the combatants might soon be cooperating over, of all things, the Civil War.
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal Members of the Tiffin Rotary Club were treated to a great meal and a presentation on the American Civil War Museum of Ohio, which is to open in Tiffin in the near future, during their weekly meeting Wednesday.
Founder Mark Young spoke to members about the museum, which is to be located at the Cornerstone Building, [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal At this weekend’s Ocklawaha River Raid, thousands of people will savor the weather, smell the gun powder and explore the trappings of 1865.
There will be the playing of cards, checkers and chess. There will be food and family activities. There will be musket fire and cannon blasts. There will be Civil War camps and hundreds [...]
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November 5, 2009 | Posted by javal Tuesday Nov. 5 1861
LEE LEADERSHIP LOOKING LACKLUSTER
A common misperception is that Gen. Robert E. Lee was the saintly and beloved leader of the Army of Northern Virginia from the beginning of the War until the surrender at Appomattox Court House. In fact, while Lee commanded Western Virginia troops during the first summer of the war, [...]
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