Monday, June 16, 2025

At Culpeper, a cadre of friends groups paved the way for a new Virginia state park that will tell the story of four battles. The idea: Preserve it and people will come

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Cunningham Farm wall remnants (Chuck Laudner/ABT), Gens. John Buford and WHF "Rooney" Lee; 8th Illinois Cavalry attack along Beve...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

An Arkansas museum telling the tragic story of the steamboat Sultana will be housed in an old school gym. Its decades-old wooden bleachers are finding a new use

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Wood from high school bleachers adorn lobby area; banners will be featured in exhibits (Sultana Disaster Museum) John Fogleman grew up in Ma...
Monday, June 9, 2025

As four Confederate soldiers are reburied in Williamsburg, archaeologists try to positively ID them through DNA testing and searches of records

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The final resting place for four soldiers at Cedar Grove Cemetery (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Archaeologists at Colonial Williams...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

A wildfire rolled into a Civil War-era fort in New Mexico. Among the damaged structures at Fort Stanton (where Billy the Kid stayed one night) was a gym built by German internees during World War II

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Burn area includes site of pool, gymnasium and old guard house (New Mexico Dept. of Cultural Affairs) A central New Mexico wildfire damaged ...

'I'm very proud of my brother': Michigan siblings travel to Fredericksburg National Cemetery, where one joins others telling the stories of men who gave their all

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Mark Fischer speaks at the grave of Sgt. Wallace Wight of the 24th Michigan (Photos courtesy Glenn Fischer) Two brothers from Michigan are b...