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The Civil War nearly claimed another casualty after an archaeologist discovered a live artillery round buried under a foot of dirt at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Park ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 ...
Steven Brann was out Wednesday on the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania, sweeping the ground with a metal detector ahead of crews that are rehabilitating a famous part of the Civil War park.
the Battle of Gettysburg. The three-day battle occurred during the American Civil War; a major conflict between the Northern and Southern states, led by the Union and Confederate armies.
“This type of munition was historically used during the Civil War and most likely came from the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863,” Capt. Matthew D. Booker, commander of the 55th Ordnance ...
Before cats ruled the internet, the felines ran the battlefield. At least, that’s history as told by Gettysburg’s Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum. The museum features painstakingly ...
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to ...
This tense election season is also peak season at a popular landmark of the American past: the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Nearly one million people visit the Civil War ...
The photographic viewing experience of the Civil War became something of a marketing venture in the post-war era, Zeller said. The seminar is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Gettysburg.
What his new home did offer was a chance to learn about the pivotal Civil War battle that was fought nearby in the hopes that he could one day give tours of the site. The 37-year-old from ...
For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... fought in critical battles including Gettysburg, Stones River and the Atlanta campaign.