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NOLA.com2d
Fort Jackson lives on after flopping in its starring role defending New Orleans in the Civil War
With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
Smithsonian Magazine17h
Newly Discovered Letters Bring New Insight Into the Life of a Civil War Soldier
Claire Rosen photographed the letters along with other Civil War artifacts, including a Federal Forage Cap worn by Union soldiers, a canteen, a regimental flag, a glass inkwell, a U.S. standard ...
The Republican Herald4d
The 48th and 96th PA regiments trained on Pottsville’s Lawton’s Hill for the Civil War
My grandparents, Nathan and Domenica Borga DePauli, had a farmette on the Route 61 side of Lawton’s Hill until after World War II. In fact, their house was demolished to make way for the new Route ...
New historic marker honors Black Union soldier who escaped slavery, became a state delegate
The new Civil War Trails sign on the Eastern Shore dedicates Peter Jacob Carter. The sign’s origins lie with Arthur Carter, ...
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier1d
Cedar Valley Civil War Roundtable to discuss battle at meeting Wednesday
CEDAR FALLS — The Cedar Valley Civil War Roundtable will meet Wednesday to discuss the Battle of Columbus in Georgia. The group meets at 7 p.m. at the Community Foundation of Northeast Iowa, 317 ...
The Times-Tribune8d
Scranton UNICO donates to save hero’s Civil War sword
The Scranton chapter of UNICO National donated $350 to the GAR Memorial Association’s fundraiser to return the Civil War sword of a North Scranton (then the town of Providence) native and Civil ...