Tuesday, October 28, 2025

The T.R.R. Cobb House in Athens, Ga., is reprising debate over who killed general at Fredericksburg. Clues and claims are featured each Wednesday on social media

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Cobb's and Kershaw's troops in Fredericksburg at the stone wall (Library of Congress) Tune in this week tor another episode of “Who ...
Monday, October 27, 2025

There's a whole lot of fungus among the USS Cairo's wooden timbers. Scientists conduct study to help find ways to slow decay of historic ironclad at Vicksburg

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The USS Cairo and an image of one of the fungus types found in the wood ( Reprinted from Journal of Fungi ); Claudia Chemello and Bob Blanch...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

'Recognized as soldiers': A Black regiment fought on this NW Georgia tract that has been recently saved. The site includes Confederate earthworks and redoubts

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Sgt. Charles Tyree of the 14th USCI was born into slavery    (Indiana Historical Society, M0470), Garrity Battery's site (at right) and ...
Monday, October 20, 2025

These unusual Rebel forts outside Atlanta were never tested by Sherman. A few Shoupades survive; volunteers toil to reveal a trench between two of them

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Ron Wendt steps near exposed trench leading up to First Shoupade; Matt Larson wields a mattock; work Sunday was near Shoupade, 2, and redan,...
Friday, October 17, 2025

William Campbell's gun crew rained hell and shot on defiant Rebel batteries at Fort Fisher. The sailor's Medal of Honor has been donated to the North Carolina park

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William Campbell's Medal of Honor; click to enlarge (Fort Fisher SHS) The Medal of Honor bestowed to the captain of a gun on the USS Tic...