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Wellington Farm Park near Grayling will host a Civil War reenactment on June 20-22, featuring reenactors from across the ...
This weekend, the echoes of muskets and the stirring words of Lincoln will ring out in Bellefonte as the borough hosts its ...
Artillery, and Navy. The tablet room contains lists of Cuyahoga County residents who served in the Civil War, as well as 4 bronze reliefs representing the "Emancipation of the Slave," "Beginning of ...
President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...
Clearly some soldiers preferred some types of guns over others while the horses pulling these guns were equally significant to the success of Civil War field artillery. There is a mix of new and old ...
Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given ... in the United States Colored Troops’ 4th Heavy Field Heavy Artillery. “This is the first Veterans Day we’ll be putting ...
Brinkerhoff Avenue, Mansfield, Ohio Saturday, June 14th & Sunday, June 15th From 10:00 am until 4:00 pm Admission and Parking ...
Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.
When Pulaski’s Edwin Ayers joined the Union Army during the Civil War, an officer made the 16-year-old a drummer boy because ...
The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.
Brian Maloney remembers taking family road trips to Gettysburg and Fort Sumter and other historical sites, but never realized his distant hometown of Arlington Heights could have anything to do with ...
Daniel Hough, a Tipperary man, was the first man killed in the US Civil War, where he served with ... in Battery D of the 1st United States Artillery Regiment. After serving out his enlistment ...