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brought that history to life with its annual Civil War Camp Day Sept. 28 at Fort Ward Museum and Historic Site. The popular living history event featured military and civilian reenactors in camp ...
The artist Henry Mosler (1841–1920) kept a diary ... of the Civil War in 1861, Mosler became an artist correspondent for Harper's Weekly, documenting the Western Theater in Kentucky, Tennessee, ...
A code used by Civil War lieutenant was deciphered, more than 150 years later. Jim Gandy, assistant librarian at the New York State Military Museum, holds the diary of Confederate officer James M.
A surprising discovery at an abandoned Civil War camp reveals a collection of lost classic cars, long forgotten by time. Watch as we explore these vintage treasures hidden beneath the surface.
Online posts and articles suggest that a place named the Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was "a concentration camp … established ... Elder, William Henry. Civil War Diary (1862-1865 ...
Open for only six weeks toward the end of the Civil War ... diaries and letters from the time, including the drawings and accounts of Private Robert Knox Sneden, a Union prisoner in the camp.
A film featuring the story of the 5th Regiment, U.S. Colored Cavalry in the Civil War, will be screened Oct. 27 in Fremont at the Hayes Presidential Library and Museums. “Camp Delaware ...
a soldier named Lemuel Adams wrote in his diary that he and other soldiers got to “fixing up our camping place to make it as comfortable as we could.” John Stacy, a former Civil War camp ...
the site of Civil War camp and training site Camp McClellan. Canvas tents, cannons, firearms and wisps of campfire smoke littered the area, giving an aura of what life might have been like during ...
Nobody. They burnt the village I was living in," said 55-year-old Mallobe, who arrived in the camp in 1990, after fleeing Liberia's civil war. "My bed, television, clothes - everything I have ...