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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Update: They found a bullet last year at a Baton Rouge church ballfield. Here's what they have learned about it

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Gov. Edwards throws out first pitch (Courtesy of Sacred Heart) Details of bullet (Courtesy of Phillip Faller) A Picket article pos...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Reward jumps to $30,000 in search for stolen gun presented to Lincoln's war secretary

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(Photos: Harrisburg, Pa. police) The owner of 1860 Henry repeating rifle stolen three years ago from a Pennsylvania museum is now offe...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Myth-busting: Reopened, restored and rebranded Atlanta Cyclorama challenges how we shape our own notions of history

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The Atlanta Cyclorama during its restoration (Atlanta History Center) Clark Gable is immortalized in the diorama (Civil War Picket) ...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Siege of Chattanooga and Wheeler's raid

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The Army of the Cumberland, trapped in Chattanooga for five harrowing weeks of near starvation in the fall of 1863, depended upon a single d...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Postscript: They found this pike head while working on the railroad just north of Atlanta

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(Sections of pike. Courtesy of National Park Service) You may recall reading our posts about the pikes made for abolitionist Jo...
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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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