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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

CSS Neuse Center schedules a March event to roll out exhibition

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The CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center in Kinston, N.C., will unveil its final phase of permanent exhibits. Entitled, “The Civil War in...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Descendants of African-American soldiers honored for efforts to have marble tablets bearing 300 names displayed again in Amherst, Mass.

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(Jen Reynolds, Senior Services, town of Amherst) The Amherst Historical Society this past weekend honored a family that worked for years to ...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Portraits of 17 Black Civil War soldiers to be exhibited in West Virginia

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An exhibit of portraits of Black soldiers who served in the Civil War is coming to West Virginia's capital, Charleston. Artist Shayne Da...
Monday, February 7, 2022

2 million artifacts later, Jim Jobling, conservator of CSS Georgia and other Civil War vessels, retires from Texas A&M lab

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Jim Jobling, in 2017 at CSS Georgia recovery site, with 3D propeller model (Picket photo) Jim Jobling , who was on deck when amazing artifac...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Robert Smalls: House bill would name a Beaufort, S.C., post office branch for the Civil War hero, former slave

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A bill naming a post office in Beaufort, S.C., for Civil War hero Robert Smalls , who escaped slavery by commandeering a Rebel steamship, ha...
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