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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Learn about 38 Tennessee battles online

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The Tennessee State Library and Archives will develop an online database of the state’s Civil War battlefields. • Article
Friday, July 30, 2010

The one and only 'Kill-Cavalry' Kilpatrick

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I ran across this column on Union Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, the cavalry commander. An excerpt: "Reckless bravado soon earned him the nam...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Piano that survived Civil War gets attention

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New York students are studying a piano hidden in a Kentucky barn where it was not burned as troops crisscrossed the area. The family legend ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Remembering Atlanta's formidable defenses

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Engineer Lemuel P. Grant had quite a chore ahead of him beginning in the summer of 1863. The possibility of Union forces one day besieging A...
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Shell causes lockdown at Army center

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A Civil War-era shell which a man tried to donate to the Army Heritage and Education Center in Pennsylvania caused a lockdown of the facilit...
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Fascinated by the Civil War since childhood, I used to terrorize my children by dragging them to battlefields across the South. I am a writer, editor and Web producer.
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