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The site of a major Civil War battle in Johnston County was recently sold. Here's what the new owners have planned for the land.
May 1864 was one of the bloodiest months in U.S. military history, with three major Civil War battles – each involving more than 100,000 engaged forces – taking place in northern Virginia and ...
Just back to 1862, for example, and you'd find the U.S. amid the Civil War. But shift your gaze east, and you'll discover that China was in the throes of its own civil war, the Taiping Rebellion ...
Like many Civil War buffs, I have very fond memories of taking my kids to see the famous Gettysburg Electric Map, which once was the centerpiece of the Rosensteel Museum and then the successor ...
While no major Civil War battles were fought in Bowling Green, the city did play a pivotal role in the development of the wars Western Theater, Trapasso told a group of about 40 people who ...
"The Old North State at War" will prove an essential reference work for any public or academic library. Contact Ben Steelman at 910-343-2208 or Ben.Steelman@StarNewsOnline.com.
Two famous Civil War battlefields in Maryland and two in Virginia have been placed on the Civil War Preservation Trust's annual list of endangered sites, the trust announced yesterday. The ...