Tuesday, May 19, 2026

RaceTrac loses its bid to build a 24/7 gas station at an Atlanta-area site where a Civil War house stood, cavalry clashed. Proximity to school, day care led to defeat

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The sturdy home was cut into six pieces before its move in spring 2025 (Civil War Picket photo) A two-acre parcel caught up in Civil War cav...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Civil War reenactors present at Navy ship commissioning in Cleveland had hoped to fire artillery salutes. Gun #179 did fire a volley in 1865 at Lincoln funeral there

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Original Napoleon (foreground) and 3-inch ordnance rifle at Saturday's event (1st Ohio LA, Battery A) Ohio Civil War reenactment crews p...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A trip to the lab: It was a thrill to briefly hold a conserved Enfield rifle and see one going into a preservation tank at Georgia state park. These weapons and 18 others were found in a blockade runner wreck. The goal is to put them on exhibit

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Josh Headlee prepares to place an Enfield in preservative dolution (top right); at bottom are a brass trigger guard and a piece of the woode...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

With groundbreaking, South Carolina hopes people across the country will help pay for a monument to Robert Smalls, the Black Civil War and civil rights hero

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Basil Watson's rendering of the memorial (Robert Smalls Monument Commission) The campaign to raise up to $2 million for a monument of Ro...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

The current Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion, Ark., will close May 16; a larger, more dynamic venue at old high school is expected to open in November

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The Sultana Disaster Museum during a visit in late January (Civil War Picket photo) A small Arkansas museum that tells the story of the ste...