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Earthquakes and Hurricanes! Natural Disasters and the Civil War
I’m sure someone has considered the impact of natural disasters on the Civil War, but apparently nobody has put forward a book length study of the subject. Perhaps that’s because there just isn’t anything to write about! And that is … Continue reading
The Battle of Honey Springs - July 17, 1863
Honey Springs was the most important Civil War battle fought in Indian Territory. It preserved Union ownership of Fort Gibson and dealt Confederate forces a blow from which they never fully recovered. It also opened the way for the Federal … Continue reading
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Tagged 1863, 1st Kansas Colored, 20th Texas Infantry, 29th Texas, Arkansas, artillery, Checotah, Civil War, Confederate, Douglas H. Cooper, Elk Creek, Fort Gibson, Fort Smith, Honey Springs, Indian Territory, Indians, Infantry, James G. Blunt, July, mountain howitzer, Napoleon howitzer, Oklahoma, Texans, Texas Road, Union, William A. Phillips, William L. Cabell
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Eight Civil War battlefields get government grants
By Linda Wheeler, Washington Post Blogs More than $1.2 million in grants from the National Park Service’sAmerican Battlefield Protection Program were awarded this week to a variety of national battlefield projects including eight Civil War sites in six states: Kansas, Kentucky, … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefield Preservation
Tagged ABPP, American Battlefield Protection Program, battlefield, Bull Run Preserve, Civil War, digital technology, Fauquier County, GIS, interpretation, Kansas, Kentucky, Linda Wheeler, Maryland, National Park Service, Ohio, Radford University, Saltville, South Carolina, Virginia
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Exec. director of National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Md. is myth-buster, works on shows
STAN GOLDBERG The Frederick News-Post FREDERICK, Md. — Actress Ashley Judd learned the truth about her great-great-great-grandfather from George Wunderlich, executive director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick. She thought her ancestor had lost a leg as … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Virginia, Maryland, Union, Georgia, Medicine, New Mexico, Andersonville, genealogy, Frederick, 19th Century, Ashley Judd, George Wunderlich, National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Saltville, Who Do You Think You Are?, NBC, television, surgery, Mythbusters, The Real Cowboys, Battlefield Detectives, History Detectives, PBS, BBC, banjo, Brooke Shields, King Louis XIV, France, The Woodwright's Shop, Roy Underhill, Terry Reimer, The Real Lonesome Dove, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, American West, Texas, ballistics
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National Park Service Director Jarvis Addresses The Value and Importance Of Maintaining Civil War Sites
Submitted by Jon Jarvis on July 25, 2011 - National Parks Traveler Editor’s note: As the National Park Service last week commemorated the start of the Civil War 150 years ago, Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis addressed an audience at the Manassas National Battlefield and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, American Revolution, Antietam, Appomattox, battlefield, Chancellorsville, Civil War, District of Columbia, Dred Scott, Founding Fathers, Gettysburg, Jonathan Jarvis, LeRoy Pope Walker, Manassas, National Park Service, North, Quaker Guns, Robert E. Lee, Shelby Foote, Shiloh, Slavery, South, Stonewall, Supreme Court, Thomas J. Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Virginia
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The Upper Peninsula in the CIVIL WAR
U.P. men enlist with the ‘Michigan devils’ By JOHANNA BOYLE - Journal Ishpeming Bureau ([email protected]) The Mining Journal MARQUETTE - The year was 1861. In April, after declaring that they would secede from the United States, forces representing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Houghton, Marquette, Michigan, Michigan Devils, Sesquicentennial, U.P., Upper Michigan, Upper Peninsula
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Remembering the 1,040-man West Michigan regiment who fought in Civil War 150 years ago
By Garret Ellison | The Grand Rapids Press GRAND RAPIDS — In the shadow of the old South High School on Hall Street SE, current home of the Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center, sits a boulder steeped in history. The … Continue reading
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Jamestown dig probes historic church and Civil War earthwork
By Mark St. John Erickson, [email protected] | 247-4783 JAMES CITY —— When archaeologist William Kelso began digging at Jamestown in 1994, few historians gave him much chance of finding the long-lost English fort of 1607. Most believed the pioneering outpost had disappeared into the James … Continue reading
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