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The proposed memorial highway would run through tribal lands in Leelanau County, where descendants of Company K soldiers ...
Using data from The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, compiled by the National Park Service, 24/7 Tempo identified the states with the most sharpshooters in the Civil War.
Breathing, blinking and slightly fidgeting, Blair McNamara stood next to a cloaked gravestone, a 19-year-old re-enactor of the Civil War sharpshooter whose memory he was helping keep alive.
A group of Native Americans from throughout Michigan, known as Company K, volunteered as sharpshooters during the U.S. Civil War, an official of the Mount Pleasant chapter of a Civil War ...
Since little had been published about Confederate sharpshooters during the Civil War, he decided to research Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, which had done pioneering work with ...
STAUNTON — Culling through records of hundreds of sharpshooting Civil War soldiers ... profiles of almost every soldier in the Palmetto SharpShooters regiment — some spanning multiple ...
The image of the half-milked cow and the young men running off to the Civil War comes at the start of ... learned that the recruiter was looking for sharpshooters. “(A)s each of us was born ...
Then they fed their tribe. When the Union Army ran low on sharpshooters during the Civil War in 1863, the Army came to Michigan to recruit these peaceful Indian hunters from the Three Fires Tribes ...
In early December 1861, a regiment that would take part in some of the fiercest fighting of the Civil War saw its first field duty in Boone County. Known as Birge’s Western Sharpshooters ...
As celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War continue, Alden “Tom’’ Ellis has written the first in-depth history of two companies of Massachusetts “sharpshooters’’ whose ...