November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
A battle is brewing at the Gettysburg Military Park over money donated to repair more than 100 monuments.
The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over $1 million 10 years ago, which was enough to repair all 140 Pennsylvania monuments.
The group said that half of the monuments are still missing pieces. The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
An encampment in western Kentucky this weekend will offer visitors a glimpse of life during the Civil War.
The Paducah Sun reports that no Civil War battles were fought in Grand Rivers, where the encampment will be held, but many in the area had ties to soldiers on both sides.
The Grand Rivers’ encampment will focus on [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
A battle flag that traveled to Iowa with a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War will soon be taking a $75,000 trip home to South Carolina.
The red palmetto flag — believed to be the one that flew over Morris Island on Jan. 9, 1861, when a battery of Citadel cadets fired on [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Jim Getty bears a striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, even when he’s just in jeans and a T-shirt.
It must be the beard.
The Gettysburg, Pa., man has been impersonating Lincoln for the past 30 years. He’s played the 16th president in the Turner Network film “The Ironclads,” and he’s done voice work for numerous Lincoln specials [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Gone With the Wind is scheduled for a Blu-ray release on Nov. 17, and next Tuesday brings Kino’s Blu-ray edition of Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent film, The General . If you must choose between the two, both set during the U.S. Civil War, heed the counsel of Orson Welles. When he introduced The General on [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
The United States Mint will release to the Federal Reserve Bank millions of one-cent coins bearing the fourth-and final-new reverse (tails side) design in the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial One-Cent Program on November 12, 2009. The design is emblematic of Lincoln’s presidency in Washington, D.C. For a limited time only, the agency will offer the 2009 [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Water is again shooting from one of the fountains on Central Park Plaza’s Civil War monument, signaling the start of restoration work on the landmark.
City workers repaired the south fountain and turned on the water Wednesday, activating it for the first time in several years.
“After a yearlong fundraising effort, it feels really good to have [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
The federal agency overseeing Fort Monroe’s transfer to the state of Virginia is seeking guidance on what visitors would like to experience when they visit.
The Fort Monroe Federal Area Development Authority plans to start working on devising an interpretive master plan and a business plan for the 570-acre historic waterfront post, which the Army plans [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
“Devil’s Dream” (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In “Devil’s Dream,” Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan.
By breaking up the story’s chronological order and injecting it with a [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Wednesday Nov. 6 1861
DAVIS DOES DEMOCRATIC DEED
The first general national election for the government of the Confederate States of America took place on this day. The Constitution specified that a president and vice president should be elected, both to hold office for a term of six years and not to be eligible for the same [...]
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