He is now an avid collector and local Civil War historian, in addition to being ... Chronologically, the book is starting in 1861, and moving forward to the First Manassas battle, the Winter ...

Throughout 2025, the Herald-Leader will showcase Lexington’s 250-year history, such as the Lexington Rifles, a Civil War militia that was formed in 1857.

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W ... responded by raising money to send rifles to Kansas (along with real settlers ...

The Springfield correspondent of the Chicago ... YATES placed in his hands the requisition of the Secretary of War for ten thousand muskets. Capt. STOKES went to St. Louis, and made his way ...

Born a slave in Mississippi in 1846, he fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yes, you did read it correctly—he ... but no one could keep Collier away from armed action. In 1861, his ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil forfeiture action against a rare Civil War-era firearm believed to have been unlawfully removed from the Springfield ...

Federal prosecutors have filed a civil forfeiture action to reclaim a historic firearm believed to have been stolen from the Springfield Armory several decades ago. China caves on 125% tariff for ...

SPRINGFIELD ... filed civil forfeiture complaint, is believed to be the same weapon stolen decades ago. Established in 1777 to supply the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, the ...

Because of what they sacrificed for me, the heroes who found rest in this glen were black soldiers who fought in the Civil War, 12 of them and their families. Local history has it the cemetery ...

MADRID - Spain on Thursday returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized for their protection during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under Francisco Franco's ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...