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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Scene at the ravine: Candlelight tours at Pickett's Mill to highlight night attack

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(Georgia State Parks) **Editor's note: Due a burn ban in Paulding County and the drought, this event has been postponed.** Sp...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

'Hard hat' tour: Petersburg will update visitors on Poplar Grove National cemetery work

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Lodge walls now are violet, as they were back in 1872 (NPS) The cemetery lodge is receiving new flooring on the first floor. Work con...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Bye-bye, clutter: Civil War Trust completes Lee headquarters restoration at Gettysburg

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(Photo courtesy of the Civil War Trust) The Civil War Trust two years ago pledged to restore the site of Confederate Gen. Robert E....
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Artifacts from site of Chicago's Camp Douglas a window into war, the Great Migration

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Minie balls found during Camp Douglas dig (Courtesy of  Michael Gregory) The 34 bankers boxes are filled with seemingly ordinary item...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

DC project frustrates Civil War buffs

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More than a decade ago, Emory United Methodist Church in the District of Columbia first floated the idea of rebuilding the aging house of w...
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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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