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Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...
Join us as we step back into history at a Civil War Confederate camp alongside dedicated reenactors from the 48th Alabama ...
Around 350 junior high students spent the day rotating through nine different stations, where they learned about everything ...
The driving force promoting parks for Chattanooga’s expanding citizenry and budding tourists was Joseph Henry Warner, later ...
Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On April 9, 1865, Confederate ... of war were subsequently forced to march 65 miles (105 kilometers) to POW camps in what is now ...
After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United ... served as an admiral in the Confederate navy. The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a ...
There the 16-year-old James took part in one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War. The Confederate guerrillas ... We don't have POW camps. We don't have paroles. We don't have codes of conduct.
Benning, a former Georgia Supreme Court justice who vocally supported secession and served as a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War, had adorned the base since it opened as Camp Benning ...
Literacy rates were high on both sides during the Civil War—about 90 percent ... a Union outpost under siege by Confederate troops, droves of wounded passed their camp en route from the front ...
1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp. 1992 ... 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was accidentally wounded ...
Don Carlos Buell defeated Confederate forces at the ... The prisoners of war were subsequently forced to march 65 miles to POW camps in what is now known as the Bataan Death March; thousands ...