Civil War Uniforms: Beyond Blue and Gray Taking a deep ... There was no need for wool uniforms in the Southern heat. While the Union Army uniforms had differences between units, Confederate ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Sept. 11, 2001, was a horrible day. The days the followed were glorious in that the groundswell of patriotism we felt in the wake of the terrorist attacks was incredible.

A snippet explaining how early Texas “became more southern ... uniforms, and that’s it.’” Patti Crummel looks at different types of dresses worn in the 1800’s on display at the Texas ...

Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War ... economic stage for war. Whitney's gin made cotton production far more efficient, fueling the need for more southern slaves and enriching ...

The uniforms stayed ... Lee, the Confederate general who led southern forces during the Civil War. In a 1998 feature on high school “scholars of the week” in The News & Observer of Raleigh ...

Seated, swords in hand, the men look serious about their duty in helping defeat southern ... they honor all the war veterans, and I knew from a young age he had been in the Civil War,” said ...

In “The Unvanquished,” he turns to a shadowy side of the Civil War: irregulars who wore enemy uniforms ... led a group of Southern “rangers”—irregulars, guerrillas and spies—who ...

To fund the Union war effort, Congress borrowed heavily and created the nation’s first uniform ... a Southern-born scholar who spent most of his career at Vanderbilt, maintained that the Civil ...

The battle cry of the Confederacy resounded a long way from its home, but throughout the Civil War ... the only non-Southern sympathizing county officials at the outset of the war were the ...