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The project was part of several recent installations in the area by the organization Civil War Trails. Civil War Trails maintains 500 partners, including state and municipal tourism offices that ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The first Civil War Trails site marker was unveiled in Nashville, dedicated to telling the story of three African American regiments. These men were former slaves that ...
Informational markers were placed Monday in the Westview Cemetery in Blacksburg and in front of Glencoe Museum in Radford, marking the sites as part of the historical project, Civil War Trails.
The Bristol, Tennessee, Boy Scout worked with the Civil War Trails program to add Bluff City as the latest marker to the trail. The marker, called “Burning Bridges,” is at the ...
BOONSBORO — The Boonsborough Museum of History recently joined the multi-state Civil War Trails (CWT) program. The program directs travelers to more than 1,500 sites across six states.
Lebanon Cemetery, in North York, became the first Civil War Trails site in York, according to a news release provided by Melissa Beaverson of Explore York. The multi-state Civil War Trails program ...
AUGUSTA COUNTY — Augusta County added a new story to the Civil War Trails program, one which has been largely forgotten for more than 160 years. Titled “Civil Disobedience, the Plight of Pacifists,” ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The Shriver House Museum in Gettysburg was added to the multi-state Civil War Trails program. Nancie Gudmestad, founder and director of the Shriver House Museum, assisted the ...
One of the last public duels in Arkansas took place 159 years ago today on the eastern fringe of what is now North Little Rock. The unlikely duelists were two Confederate brigadier generals, John ...
A Civil War Trails marker now commemorates the Black veterans buried at Lebanon Cemetery, the resting place for many prominent York-area citizens. The historically Black Lebanon Cemetery ...
“The new Civil War Trails site in Arlington offers travelers an opportunity to stand in the footsteps of warriors,” Rita McClenny, CEO of the Virginia Tourism Corporation, said in a statement.