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Tag Archives: Civil War
Minnesota Makes Do Without a Civil War Battlefield
By JOHN HANC A version of this article appears in print on March 20, 2014, on page F24 of the New York edition with the headline: Making Do Without Civil War Battlefield. ST. PAUL — THE Civil War seems a long way from … Continue reading
Posted in Commemoration
Tagged 1819, 1861, 1865, 3rd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Seibers, Alexander Ramsey, Alfred Gales, Alfred Miller, Arkansas, Battle of Gettysburg, California, Charles F. Bryan Jr., Civil War, Danielle Dart, Department of Veterans Affairs, Fort Road, Fort Snelling, Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Henning von Minden, John Hanc, John Miner, Manassas, Mary Lethert Wingerd, Matt Cassady, Minneapolis, Minnehaha State Park, Minnesota, Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Veterans Home, Missouri, New York Times, Oakland Cemetery, Old Soldiers Home, Roosevelt Dam, soldiers and Sailors Monument, St. Cloud State University, St. Paul, St. Paul After the Civil War, West Seventh Street
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2013-2015 Civil War Reenactment Calendar
NOTE: We receive a lot of requests for information on Civil War reenactment events throughout the country. Below is a listing of events to assist people in their search for an event near them. This Week in the Civil War does … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Reenactment
Tagged 100th Birthday Committee, 136th New York, 136th New York Volunteer Infantry, A Wilderness Evening, Aldie, Aldie Mill, Alexandria, Andersonville, Andersonville National Historic Site, Annapolis, Antietam National Battlefield, Appomattox 150, Appomattox County Historical Society, Arkansas, Atlanta Campaign, Bacon Creek Station, Baldwin City, Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park, Battery Wagner, Battle for Chattanooga, Battle of Black Jack, Battle of Cheatham Hill, Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Fort Branch, Battle of Fort Crawford, Battle of Iuka, Battle of Marshall, Battle of Olustee, Battle of Utoy Creek, Bauer Park, Bay City, Bell of Louisville, Belle of Cincinnati, Bentonville Battlefield, Big Pool, Blackford County, Blue-Gray Alliance, Bonnieville, Bost Grist Mill, Brandy Station, Bristoe Station, Bristow, Brooksville, Brooksville Raid, Bruce Boxleitner, Buckland Farm, Burwood-Morgan Mill, California, Camp Jefferson, Camp Nelson, Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, Camp Wildcat, Camp William Penn, Cape May, Cedar Creek, Celebration Belle, Charleston, Checotah, Cheltenham Township, Chickamauga National Battlefield Park, Christmas in Camp, City County Park, Civil War, Civil War 150, Civil War Annapolis, Civil War Christmas, Civil War Events, Civil War Foodfest, Civil War reenacting, Civil War Reenactment, Civil War Reenactments, Clinton, Clover Hill Village, Cold Spring Village, Colonial Planation, Columbus, Columbus-Belmont Park, Concord, Connecticut, Cornersville, Cowtown, David Carpenter, Detroit, Droop Mountain, Durham, Ellwood, events, Fairfax, Florida, Fort Benton, Fort Frederick, Fort Harrison, Fort Huger, Fort Oglethorpe, Fort Sanders, Fort Shenandoah, Fort Ward, Four Oaks, Franconia, Frederick County, Fredericksburg, Friends of Honey Springs Battlefield, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, George G. Meade, Georgia, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Remembrance Day, Glen Allen, Greenbush, Guyandotte, Hallsville, Hamilton, Harpers Ferry, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Harris-Kearney House, Hartford City, Haunted Battlefield Tour, Hempstead, Henry County, Hermann, Hermann Farm, Hernando Historical Museum Association, Historic Fort Wayne, Holland, Hollywood Cemetery, Honey Springs, Illinois, Illumination, Indiana, Iowa, Iuka, Jacksonville, James River, John Brown's Raid, John Wilkes Booth, John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Bus Tour, Kansas, Kansas City, Kelly's Ford, Kennesaw, Kennesaw Mountain, Kennesaw State University, Kentucky, Kilpatrick's Breakthrough, Knoxville, Lairdland Farm House, Lake City, Lamoni, LaMott, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Lee's Summit, Leesburg, Letchworth State Park, Lewisburg, Liendo Plantation, Little Rock, Little Rock Campaign, London, Lookout Mountain, Luminary, Luray Caverns, Luray Valley, Madison, Manassas Gap, Marshall, Maryland, Massachusetts, Meadow Farm Museum, Media, Michigan, Middle Creek, Middletown, Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad, Military Ball, Millwood, Mine Run Campaign, Minnesota, Minnesota State Capitol, Missionary Ridge, Mississippi, Missouri, Missouri Town 1855, Moorpark, Mount Zion Historic Park, Mountain Cove Farms, Museums by Candlelight, Nash Farm, New Jersey, New Market, New York, Newburyport, North Carolina, North Pinellas County Scout Sertoma Club, North-South Skirmish Association, NSSA, Oak Brook, Ohio, Oklahoma, Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, Orange County, Orchard Knob, Pamplin Historical Park, Patrick Gorman, Pennsylvania, Petersburg, Petersburg National Battlefield, Philadelphia, Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Port Arthur, Portage, Prairie Grove, Prestonburg, Prince William County historic Preservation Division, Princeton, Redley Creek State Park, Reed's Bridge Battlefield, Reenactments, Rice, Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Ringgold, Ringgold Gap, Sabine Pass, Sayler's Creek Battlefield Historical Park, Sharpsburg, Smithfield, Soldiers National Cemetery, South Carolina, Spirit of Peoria, St. Albans Raid, St. Paul, Stanhope, Surratt House Museum, Tennessee, Texas, Thanksgiving 1863, Thanksgiving in the Trenches, The Long Road Home, United States Colored Troop, USCT, Van Raalte Farm, Vermont, Virginia, Virginia Museum of the Civil War, Walker County, War Between the Tastes, Warrenton, Warrenton-Fauquier Heritage Days, Washington DC, Washington State Park, Waterloo Village, West Virginia, Westport, White House of the Confederacy, Wichita, William Lloyd Garrison, Winchester, Wisconsin, Zoar
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A photo taken 150 years ago of a runaway slave changed the way Americans saw the Civil War
It isn’t possible to tell the story of the Civil War without recourse to the million photographic images that were created, some of the best of which are part of a new museum exhibition. by Ted Widmer Article originally appeared … Continue reading
Posted in 1863, Original Photos
Tagged Civil War, Crimean War, Gordon, Harpers Weekly, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Mathew Brady, McPherson and Oliver, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexican War, Mississippi, New England, New York, New York Times, propaganda, Ted Widmer, The Scourged Back, Times of London, Vicksburg, Walt Whitman, whipping
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Top 10 Civil War destinations: The best places to relive the War Between the States
by the Marine Corps Times It’s hard to imagine, 150 years later, the carnage that occurred in just 12 hours of fighting. But as you walk along the infamous Sunken Road of Antietam National Battlefield, where thousands upon thousands fought … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Marine Corps
Tagged Alcatraz, Alcatraz Cruises, Antietam National Battlefield, Arkansas, August 1862, California, Charleston Harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Civil War, Civil War Battlefield Trail, dolphin watching, Eastern National Bookstore, Fort Davis National Historic Site, Fort Monroe National Monument, Fort Pulaski National Monument, Fort Sumter, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg National Military Park, Georgia, Glorieta Pass, Jefferson Davis, Labor Day, Marine Corps, Marine Corps Times, Marye's Heights, Maryland, Memorial Day, Mike Litterst, Missouri, National Park Service, New Mexico, Pea Ridge National Military Park, Pecos National Historical Park, Peninsula Campaign, Richmond, Richmond National Battlefield Park, Rio Grande, Robert E. Lee, Seven Days Battle, Shiloh, Shiloh National Military Park, South Carolina, Sunken Road, Tennessee, Texas, tourism, travel, Tybee Island, Virginia
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On this date in Civil War history: April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh
Fought in the early spring of 1862 on the west bank of the Tennessee River just north of the Mississippi state line, the battle of Shiloh was, up to that time, the biggest battle of American history. For two days … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Battles, This Date in Civil War History, Uncategorized
Tagged 1st Minnesota Light Artillery, Alabama, Albert Sidney Johnston, Andrew H. Foote, Army of Mississippi, Army of the Ohio, Army of the Tennessee, Battles, Benjamin Prentiss, Bowling Green, Braxton Bragg, Casualties, Civil War, Confederate, Corinth, cyclorama, D.W. Reed, Don Carlos Buell, Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, gunboats, Henry W. Halleck, Hornets Nest, Jefferson Davis, Kentucky, Lew Wallace, Louisiana Washington Light Artillery, Memphis, Memphis & Charleston Railroad, Memphis Clarksville & Louisville Railroad, Mississippi, Mississippi Valley, Mobile, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Nathan Bedford Forrest, New Orleans, P.G.T. Beauregard, Pensacola, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh, Shiloh Methodist Church, Tennessee, Tennessee River, Theophile Poilpot, Ulysses S. Grant, Union, William T. Sherman
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Minnesota Soldier Killed at Shiloh to have grave re-dedicated after 150 years
Information courtesy of the MN Civil War Commemoration Task Force Event: Civil War Grave Rededication Ceremony Date: April 7, 2012 Place: Oakland Cemetery, 927 Jackson Street, St. Paul, MN Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Sponsor: Minnesota Civil War Commemoration … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Casualties, Cemeteries, Commemoration, Graves
Tagged 16th U.S. Infantry, 1st Minnesota Light Artillery, 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Captain William Acker, Civil War, Company C, grave rededication, Mark Dayton, Minnesota, Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force, Oakland Cemetery, Shiloh, St. Paul
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Request for Help - 1st Minnesota photographs
This is Wayne Jorgenson. I am a Civil War collector and historian on the First Minnesota Infantry. I am in the final stages of writing a book about the men who served in the First Minnesota Infantry during the Civil … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Original Photos
Tagged 1st Minnesota, Books, Civil War, Commemoration, Every Man Did His Duty, photographs, Wayne Jorgenson
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Minnesotans faced first Civil War combat action at Mill Springs 150 years ago
By Darryl Sannes Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force The Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry distinguished itself during actions at the Battle of Mill Springs, Ky., 150 years ago Thursday. The regiment faced Confederate soldiers from Mississippi and Tennessee during the … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Battles, Casualties, Graves, Obituaries, This Date in Civil War History
Tagged 20th Tennessee, 2nd Minnesota, Bailie Peyton, Civil War, Darryl Sannes, Felix Zollicoffer, George Bibb Crittenden, George H. Thomas, Judson Bishop, Kentucky, Mill Springs, Minnesota, Minnesota Civil War Commemoration Task Force, Van Cleve
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150th Anniversary Mill Springs Reenactment to be held January 21-22, 2012
Information courtesy of the Mill Springs Battlefield Association. The Mill Springs Battlefield will be hosting Reenactment on January 21 & 22, 2012 at Zollicoffer Park. This Sesquicentennial Event will mark the 150thAnniversary of the Battle of Mill Springs. Our November and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Civil War, Commemoration, Felix Zollicoffer, George Thomas, January, Kentucky, Mill Springs, Preservation, Reenactment, Sesquicentennial
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