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You can hear echoes of Buckley's early career in more than one MAGA crusader's rhetoric today. That's not a sign of a man who ...
After 155 years, the remains of Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram - believed to be the last Confederate soldier killed in battle - were recovered in Munford, Alabama. Shot just eight days after Lee’s ...
President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...
It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers ... the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who were buried there.
In this special relic hunt, we visit a Confederate camp and team up with reenactors from the 48th Alabama Infantry to learn how to identify authentic Civil War finds. Their period-accurate gear and ...
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War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...
They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of efforts by several organizations led to granite headstones being placed. Veteran, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War member ...
Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the Confederate States ... slavery to “a form of civil government for those ...
A memorial honouring men from East Lancashire who volunteered to fight fascism in the 1930s Spanish Civil War has been unveiled ... a right-wing coup in 1936 led by Spanish General Francisco ...
Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War ... Early in the war, it was a Confederate veteran, a young country boy, on guard duty, he's walkin ...
Acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields ... months that followed the surrender of General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox.