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Check out Rafael Eledge's appraisal of a Civil War colonel uniform group, ca. 1863, in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.
On a forgotten Civil War battlefield, we discovered relics that may have belonged to a fallen cavalry officer. These finds help reconstruct a powerful story of courage, struggle, and sacrifice. As ...
In the Civil War, Union cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick and David Gregg rode on county roads in late June 1863, a total of 6,500 troopers.
The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force.
'Tis Not Our War': Why Most Americans Dodged the Civil War Draft and Deserted the Union Army "Don't you see the point?" From Harper's Weekly, August 29, 1863.
Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.
Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on a crucial supply, the absence of which threatened to sap the fighting strength of the Northern army: coffee. This critical source of energy ...
The Chesapeake Sheriff's Office donated cemetery markers at a Civil War memorial to honor Black soldiers that fought for the Union cause.
The headstone of John E. Wiegel is seen Monday in Irwin’s Union Cemetery, where members of the Sons of Union Veterans and Civil War reenactors gathered to honor Wiegel as the last known Union ...
ALLEGAN, Mich. — Six local soldiers of the Civil War were honored with gravestones in Allegan on Saturday. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Friends of Allegan’s Oakwood ...
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War walk to the gravesite of Civil War Union veteran Pvt. James Schobel White on Aug. 10, 2024, at the East London Cemetery Chapel in England. The Sons of ...