Topic: American Civil War
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 ...
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 ...
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," ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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