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Artifacts Found Metal Detecting for Confederate Soldier Civil War Camps
Artifacts found Metal detecting for confederate soldier civil war camps (private permission). After filming last week's ...
Appomattox: Where America's Civil War Neared Its End
Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...
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How Women Enlisted as Men to Fight in the Civil War
American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...
5 Medical Innovations from the Civil War
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
What is Cold Harbor on Severance? It could be tied to this major Civil War battle
The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...
Kankakee Valley Historical Society teaches about life during Civil War
Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
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The Former Slave Who Stole a Confederate Ship to Achieve His Family's Freedom
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Harriet Tubman has long been known as a conductor on the Underground Railroad leading enslaved Black people to freedom. Less ...
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
Explore the lives of little-known changemakers who left their mark on the country During the Civil War ... few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at ...
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Descendant of Fort Rucker Confederate namesake: ‘We don’t want our name back on an Alabama base’
A descendant of Confederate Col. Edmund Rucker today denounced demands from Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that Fort Novosel revert to being named after her distant cousin. “Rucker family ...