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Civil War Museums Evolve to Stay Relevant

Posted on January 9, 2012 by civilwarweek

Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Inside Louisiana’s Civil War Museum, battle flags line the walls. Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns fill museum cases beside homespun knapsacks, dented canteens and tiny framed pictures of wives that … Continue reading →

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Civil War stories on display at Henry Ford Museum

Posted on May 17, 2011 by civilwarweek

RoNeisha Mullen/The Detroit News Dearborn— Booming cannons shattered the still of morning just before sunrise on April 12, 1861. Southern Confederate forces had unleashed a barrage of fire against the Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C. The Civil War had … Continue reading →

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Pa. museum displays Civil War-era medicine

Posted on April 22, 2011 by civilwarweek

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Nothing like the sight of a bone saw to cut the romance from your Civil War dreams. After all, the last full measure of devotion takes on a new shade of meaning when you imagine a … Continue reading →

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Civil War Sites in Maryland

Posted on April 21, 2011 by civilwarweek

BY TIMOTHY B. WHEELER Baltimore Sun While the first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, the first blood spilled in fighting occurred in Baltimore on April 19, 1861, when a … Continue reading →

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