November 19, 2009 | Posted by javal
Rod Andrew, professor of history at Clemson University, has won the 2008 Mary Lawton Hodges Prize in Southern Studies for his biography “Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer.”
Andrew received his award Nov. 12 at a dinner in his honor at the University of South Carolina. Following the award presentation, Andrew gave a public lecture [...]
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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 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 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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October 9, 2009 | Posted by javal
As ghosts begin to lurk everywhere, an annual tradition takes visitors to a South Carolina city back to the Civil War era and the spirits from that period.
The Confederate Ghost Walk is Friday and Saturday in Charleston’s Magnolia Cemetery and visitors can see vignettes about historic events related to those buried in the cemetery.
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October 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
Researchers seem to have solved the mystery of what happened to the “Big Red” flag flown by Citadel cadets when they fired on a ship trying to resupply Fort Sumter 3 months before the Civil War.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reports a 10-by-7-foot flag with a large white Palmetto tree and a white crescent [...]
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October 2, 2009 | Posted by javal
In the days leading to the Civil War, a battery of Citadel cadets on Morris Island fired at the supply ship “Star of the West” as it approached Fort Sumter, forcing the ship to turn around.
A red palmetto flag flew over the cadets during the attack on Jan. 9, 1861, which marked a victory for [...]
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September 18, 2009 | Posted by javal
Approaching the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History is holding its annual symposium on the war and how it affected the state.
The Columbia symposium opens with a Friday night reception, followed on Saturday by speakers and a tour of Columbia buildings that survived the burning of the [...]
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September 10, 2009 | Posted by javal
After years of playing second fiddle to the ever-popular Fort Sumter, South Carolina’s landmark Fort Moultrie is finally getting its own star turn.
The colonial-era, Sullivan’s Island fort will represent the state in the U.S. Mint’s new “America the Beautiful” quarter series featuring 56 national parks and landmarks.
The series — much like the previous one that [...]
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