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An academic historian had written about her, and she was sometimes included in lists of the moonlight-and-magnolia-style of female civil war spies, the kind historians don’t take too seriously.
A century after serving in the 39th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, two soldiers are to receive ... to secure the headstones for the Civil War veterans. “They’ve been neglected ...
In 1936, as Spain descended into a bloody civil war, the left-wing Republican side put out an international call for help. They were fighting against the right-wing Nationalists, who were led by ...
Dozens of people who hadn't even heard of Civil War veteran John Weigel until today honoring his memory and his family. The first of its kind in Westmoreland County, *** Memorial Day ceremony for ...
Usually, a civil war ... impact of this war left deep scars: Over 600,000 deaths, making it the deadliest war in American history. A challenging period of rebuilding the South was the ...
After her brother volunteered for the “Bloody” 9th Indiana Regiment in the Civil War, she signed up for the war effort. She was dispatched to an Army Hospital that treated soldiers amid the ...
War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...
During the Civil War, in 1864, enslaved people of all ages ... who escaped bondage from the antebellum South on ships at sea. The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue ...
ALBION — A Civil War veteran with a Michigan infantry unit who was unknown in Orleans County for over a century is now known to the public. Daniel Walterhouse (1823-1910) who died after living ...
Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...
When Civil War era reenactors ... They were quite popular during the war. Each state had one when they seceded. You would see people wearing them and soldiers wearing them on their hats as well.” ...