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Civil War author and lecturer Scott Mingus will present on the Civil War murders of York County, with true crime stories like the murder of a Rebel soldier by York Countians when they learned he was ...
In today’s History Seekers adventure, we explore a Civil War battlefield site used by both Union and Confederate soldiers, ...
He began by transcribing the handwriting. Literacy rates were high on both sides during the Civil War—about 90 percent for Union soldiers, above 80 percent for Confederates. Still, many enlisted ...
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 ...
The Union, heartily tired of war, would be electing its President ... "In his long, yellowish linen coat and unbrushed high hat," an Ohio soldier who had seen him at the fort wrote, "he looked ...
In the Civil War, the most notorious camp was near Andersonville, Ga., where an estimated 30 percent of the 32,000 captured Union soldiers died of starvation, exposure, or disease. What are the ...
With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...
In 1913, a half century after the Civil War, the city of Huntington welcomed hundreds of grizzled veterans of that great conflict. First, in May, West Virginia members of the Grand Army of the ...
When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could not imagine the remarkable discoveries they would find.
The intervention creates a new civil war inside MAGA, or at least a significant new front in the existing Bannon-Musk hostilities. ADVERTISEMENT Bannon started his rant with, “Let me be blunt.
The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...