Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
It commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war. As a Confederate soldier, he fought for the Southern pro-slavery states who wanted to break ...
For decades, more than two dozen urns made of cardboard and copper have been sitting on storage shelves at a funeral home and ...
At the time of the Civil War ... were America’s first pictorial war correspondents. They were young men (none were women) from diverse backgrounds—soldiers, engineers, lithographers and ...
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series wraps up on Monday, April 21 with a thought-provoking program titled “Statues, ...
These objects belonged to the men and boys who fought on the front lines for both Confederate and Union forces ... This section displays objects that helped the soldier get through the atrocities of ...
For many Americans, both civilian and military, who lived through the conflict, the Civil War was the monumental ... such as the United Confederate Veterans and the Grand Army of the Republic formed ...
The couple was married in May 1861, just as the Civil War was starting ... between Union and Confederate.” Isely decided to join the fight after meeting Union soldiers from Ohio, realizing ...