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 ...

Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...

Excavation of the site then cranked into full gear, led by Lance Greene ... and if they traded with their captors.” Camp Lawton is unique among Civil War POW sites in that almost the entire ...

After a stop at the Lions Club food truck, families wandered around the camp asking questions and touching gear and trying out ... or being an extra in a Civil War movie (which many of these ...

often served as camp workers at this early stage in the Civil War, McCray said. Someone like Bell would have helped with food service and carried gear for a specific officer, often in uniform.

The Clinton County History Center will host a special Civil War Weekend from June 12-14, 2025. The free, three-day event will ...

Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black soldiers trained in the Civil War. But in the war’s last months, these soldiers were ...

Keller's 2015 book, "The Story of Camp Douglas: Chicago's Forgotten Civil War Prison." In February 1862, the first 1,258 Confederate prisoners were sent to Camp Douglas – amid concerns from both ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle. The simple copper and ...