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In today’s History Seekers adventure, we explore a Civil War battlefield site used by both Union and Confederate soldiers, uncovering artifacts lost 160 years ago. This field has remained quiet ...
Making the ‘Civil War’ White House Battle: Dentist Drills, Tyler Perry’s Three-Story Replica Building and More ...
In the years before the start of the Civil War, marked by the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, ... Fort Negley never ended up seeing battle, and was abandoned after the war.
Abandoned cemetery in Sioux Falls is the final stop for Civil War veteran, Reuben W Hayward Forest Home Cemetery is one of 16 abandoned cemeteries in Minnehaha County.
RIDGELAND — Cathy DeCourcy, treasurer of the Friends of Honey Hill Battlefield, zipped around the location of the 1864 battle behind the wheel of a side-by-side ATV, delivering water, snacks and ...
In 2015 Anheuser-Busch donated land along Interstate 64 in York County — part of the battlefield — to the American Battlefield Trust, a Fredericksburg-based organization established in 1987 to ...
The National Park Service awards $456,934.78 in Battlefield Restoration Grants to enhance Civil War battlefields in North Carolina and South Carolina, preserving historic features.
During the years preceding the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, often considered the start of the Civil War, the U.S. military was already busy building defensive fortifications around major cities.