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Death of the Confederacy

Follow the final blows to the Confederacy as General William Tecumseh Sherman leads his infamous March to the Sea. This video examines the strategy of total war, the destruction left in its wake, and ...
In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced on Atlanta as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s grand strategy to break the Confederacy’s will to fight. This video explores how Sherman’s campaign ...
TECUMSEH – The Tecumseh Indians improved to 2-0 on the young season Friday night, defeating the Pinckney Pirates by the score of 31-21. The two teams played even football for much of the game, with a ...
TECUMSEH – The Tecumseh Indians football team kicked off their 2025 season in style this past Thursday night, defeating Carleton Airport by the score of 42-16. Things did not start out so great for ...
Lenawee County's restaurant and diner scene has changed dramatically over the years, as local eateries open and close, chain restaurants expand, and ownership changes hands. This month, we decided to ...
RICHMOND — Abraham Peyton Skipwith died in 1799 and left his wife the kind of estate that befits a city founding father: horse and buggy, gun, six Windsor chairs, silver teaspoons, a home, a plot of ...
A reader recently submitted a question that, on the surface, seems simple enough. They wondered, “Did the Choctaw tribe fight alongside Gen. Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans?” The short ...
Author, editor and Indiana University professor emerita Audrey McCluskey grew up in America's Jim Crow South. While no longer teaching classes at IU, she is sharing through her latest book —her memoir ...
COLUMBUS — Week 2 of the 2025 high school football season is in the books. Football players from all over Ohio put up some amazing performances in the second week of the season. Here, the Ohio Prep ...
The National Weather Service is warning of a "significant and dangerous heat wave" that will expand from the Central U.S. into the Eastern U.S this weekend through much of next week. A heat advisory ...
Max Miller accounted for four touchdowns in leading Springboro to a 38-0 win versus Edgewood in Friday night high school football action at CareFlight Field. Miller threw touchdown passes to Brady ...