Articles from January 2011
January 28, 2011 | Posted by javal
This month’s 150th anniversary of Alabama seceding from the United States went unmarked in the Yellow Hammer State.
And that’s a shame.
The Jan.11, 1861, secession declaration is certainly no cause for celebration, but it was a watershed event for Alabama, and should not be ignored regardless of the pain and embarrassment of the memory for some.
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January 28, 2011 | Posted by javal
A highly-anticipated Civil War-related tour created by award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, is headed to Prince William County, Virginia this year, thanks in part to efforts by the Prince William-Manassas Convention & Visitors Bureau and local tourism partners.
The 2011 Tauck Civil War Event Tour, created by Burns and collaborator Dayton Duncan and organized by Tauck [...]
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January 28, 2011 | Posted by javal
The First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry will be commemorated during Washington County’s most recent “One County, One Book” program in which multiple residents are encouraged to read and discuss the same materials.
The First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was a regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was the first state volunteer [...]
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January 28, 2011 | Posted by javal
This column is the continuation of Wagon Boss Robert M. Peck’s experiences in eastern Kansas and the Indian Territory (present Oklahoma) from 1862-1865. During the Civil War, the “Union” Quartermaster Department hired civilians to be in charge of mule drawn wagon trains that transported almost all of the supplies that were necessary equip a field [...]
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January 28, 2011 | Posted by javal
The National Park Service’s chief is among those praising the world’s largest retailer for deciding not to build a Supercenter at the Wilderness.
National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis reacted to Walmart’s abandonment of plans for a 143,000-square-foot store a cannon-shot from Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
“Walmart has crafted a solution where battlefield resources and [...]
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January 28, 2011 | Posted by javal
Last week marked the 150th anniversary of the first stages of the Civil War. And just as Confederate troops marched through Georgia, a group of Romans are prepared to march through history.
The Coosa Room of the Rome-Floyd County Library was packed with Civil War enthusiasts Thursday night as they waited to hear history unfold.
Around 100 [...]
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January 28, 2011 | Posted by javal
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1862
FURIOUS FLOODING FRUSTRATES FOOTE
Flag Officer Andrew Foote, after consultation with Gen. Grant, informed Gen. Halleck that they thought Ft. Henry could be successfully taken with four gunboats and the troops who were presently available. Halleck protested that the river was flooding, and he wanted to wait until the roads were better. Foote [...]
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January 27, 2011 | Posted by javal
On Sunday, February 6, 2011, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military
Park, in association with Black History Month, will be presenting “African
Americans and the Civil War.” This one hour interpretive program will
begin at 2:00 p.m. at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center. Join a
Park Ranger as he follows the plight of both freed and enslaved blacks in
the period [...]
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January 27, 2011 | Posted by javal
A new display at Historic Bath, “The Civil War at Home: Uncovering Local History Through Family Letters,” will highlight some of the ways readers can glean bits of local knowledge 150 years later through personal letters exchanged during this pivotal era in American history. Canteens, spectacles, binoculars and belt buckles from the Civil War era [...]
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January 27, 2011 | Posted by javal
Kansas statehood and the Civil War were intertwined, and a lot of the issues were played out in Kansas, according to Galen Ewing, park ranger at the Fort Scott National Historic Site.
The fort was established and garrisoned by the U.S. Army from 1842 to 1853 to assist in protecting the Permanent Indian Frontier. It was [...]
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