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NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Country star Trace Adkins' career has gone to the dogs -- sort of.

He's spent the past few weeks judging an advertising jingle contest for Waggin' Train dog treats, and recently stepped into the recording studio with winner Dewey Longuski of Mason, Michigan, whose jingle "Headin' Out to Tasty Town" will be recorded to promote the canine food ...

NORFOLK, Va (Reuters) - Not a single blade of uncut grass mars a clutch of Confederate graves in Elmwood Cemetery, a refuge of calm in this bustling southeastern Virginian city.

The obvious care with which the 33 small headstones are maintained reminds visitors of how beloved those interred beneath are -- and how cherished their cause, as interpreted by their descendants, still ...

The cannons boomed and the guns flared as the mists of times parted, and north and south squared off again on a Virginia field in a living reminder of the first major battle of the Civil War.

"We know the war is over," said Ron Miller, proudly attired in the uniform of the southern Confederacy, which went on to win ...

With a fife and drum band playing Yankee Doodle and civil war re-enactors sweltering in the summer sun, a museum honoring the contribution of African Americans in the US Civil War moved into its new home in Washington Monday.

"It is finally finished, a great new 5,000 square foot (465 square meters) African American Civil War Museum," Frank Smith ...

FOLLY BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) -- The tiny island city of Folly Beach, South Carolina, paid tribute this week to Union soldiers whose bones were found there more than a century after the Civil War ended.

Residents, visitors and Civil War re-enactors gathered at a riverside park on Friday for ceremonies that included rifle and cannon fire salutes, bagpipes and the ...

Motorcycles, cannons, cars, even Super Bowl rings have been sold or pawned at Gold & Silver Pawn, home of the History Channel's hit reality show, "Pawn Stars." Bloody bayonets from the Civil War share space with unopened bottles of Dom Perignon from the 1920s, vintage Coke machines from the 1950s and action figures dating to the 1930s.

During a recent ...

WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hundreds of African-American Union soldiers buried in the National Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina, after the Civil War were honored Thursday with a state highway historical marker.

Many of the "United States Colored Troops," as they were known in the 1860s, died in the final months of the war when federal troops closed the Confederacy's ...

Birmingham, Ala (Reuters) --- Bands will play, soldiers will march and wreaths will be laid on Monday as America commemorates the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.

While Memorial Day celebrates the brave soldier, it also serves as a reminder of war's grimmest reality.

"Men love war. It's exciting and glorious," said Charleston, South Carolina historian Robert ...

He owns a musket and a flask carried by soldiers in the US Civil War and has journeyed five times to Gettysburg to explore the conflict's most iconic battlefield.

But this enthusiast for all things Civil War is not one of the legions of Americans who remain passionate over their country's 1861-1865 bloodletting. He is Australia's ambassador ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters Life!) - On the eve of the American Civil War, Charleston boasted of being one of the wealthiest and most glamorous cities in the world.

By the end of the bloody conflict, even Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman, who torched everything in his path, took pity on the city, according to historian Richard Rosen.

Today the ...