Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
How the Union took to the skies in the Civil War
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
Experts say US weather forecasts will worsen as DOGE cuts balloon launches
With massive job cuts, the National Weather Service is reducing vital weather balloon launches in eight northern locations.
Bruton Parish Church hangs plaque to explain existing Civil War-era tablet
Bruton Parish Church officials recently hung a new plaque explaining an existing Civil War-era tablet that honors dead ...
On This Day, March 21: Piccard, Jones are 1st to circle globe by balloon
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon.
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Ukraine bombards Russia with largest drone barrage of war, Moscow says
Trump has framed Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main impediment to peace, falsely blaming Ukraine for starting the war, seeking to undermine Zelenskyy's legitimacy and publicly ...
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Syria’s worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the ...
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Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the ...
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Barrage Balloons over Dundalk during the war
My most abiding memory of the World War II Emergency as a child was of barrage balloons! Not that there were all that ... of what was known as the 'Cuban Missile Crises'. I joined the Civil Defence as ...