http://americancivilwarinfo.com/topic/american-civil-war2011-11-14T11:30:20Z2011-11-14T11:30:20ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-11-14:/trace-adkins-talks-country-canines-movie-casting-4856199a/

<div><p><span><a title="Nashville" href="/topic/Nashville" >NASHVILLE</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - Country star <a title="Trace Adkins" href="/topic/Trace+Adkins" >Trace Adkins</a>' career has gone to the dogs -- sort of.</p><p>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 <span>Dewey Longuski</span> of Mason, <spa...

2011-08-20T09:30:07ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-08-20:/descendants-maintain-confederate-graves-memory-virginia-4821862a/

<div><p><span><a title="Norfolk" href="/topic/Norfolk" >NORFOLK</a></span>, Va (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - 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.</p><p>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 interpr...

2011-07-24T01:30:06ZAFP Global Editiontag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-07-24:/civil-war-life-virginia-battlefield-4810555a/

<div><p>The cannons boomed and the guns flared as the mists of times parted, and north and south squared off again on a <a title="Virginia" href="/topic/Virginia" >Virginia</a> field in a living reminder of the first major battle of the Civil War.</p><p>"We know the war is over," said <span><a title="Ron Miller" href="/topic/Ron+Miller" >Ron Miller</a></span>, proudly attired in the uniform of the southern Confederacy, which went on to win this battle 150 years ago, though not ultimately the war...

2011-07-18T21:30:12ZAFP Global Editiontag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-07-18:/african-american-civil-war-museum-new-home-4808340a/

<div><p>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 <a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" >Washington</a> Monday.</p><p>"It is finally finished, a great new 5,000 square foot (465 square meters) <a title="African American Civil War Museum" href="/topic/African+American+Civil+War+Museum" >African American Civil War Mu...

2011-07-16T08:30:13ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-07-16:/south-carolina-beach-city-remembers-black-civil-war-soldiers-4807549a/

<div><p><span><a title="Folly Beach" href="/topic/Folly+Beach" >FOLLY BEACH</a></span>, <a title="South Carolina" href="/topic/South+Carolina" >South Carolina</a> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) -- 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.</p><p>Residents, visitors and Civil War re-enactors gathered at a riverside...

2011-06-21T02:30:54ZLas Vegas Suntag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-06-21:/pieces-history-passed-pawned-priced-4796427a/

<div><p>Motorcycles, cannons, cars, even Super Bowl rings have been sold or pawned at Gold &amp; Silver Pawn, home of the <span><a title="The History Channel" href="/topic/The+History+Channel" >History Channel</a></span>'s hit reality show, "Pawn Stars." Bloody bayonets from the Civil War share space with unopened bottles of <span><a title="Dom Perignon" href="/topic/Dom+Perignon" >Dom Perignon</a></span> from the 1920s, vintage Coke machines from the 1950s and action figures dating to the 1930s...

2011-06-02T16:30:08ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-06-02:/north-carolina-city-honors-black-civil-war-soldiers-4788860a/

<div><p><span><a title="Wilmington" href="/topic/Wilmington" >WILMINGTON</a></span>, <a title="North Carolina" href="/topic/North+Carolina" >North Carolina</a> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - 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.</p><p>Many of the "<span><a title="United States" href="/top...

2011-05-29T12:00:10ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-05-29:/memorial-day-beginnings-civil-war-4786861a/

<div><p><span><a title="Birmingham (Alabama)" href="/topic/Birmingham+(Alabama)" >Birmingham, Ala</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) --- Bands will play, soldiers will march and wreaths will be laid on Monday as <span>America</span> commemorates the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.</p><p>While <a title="Memorial Day" href="/topic/Memorial+Day" >Memorial Day</a> celebrates the brave soldier, it also serves as a reminde...

2011-05-15T18:30:30ZAFP American Editiontag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-05-15:/civil-war-buff-australias-envoy-4781082a/

<div><p>He owns a musket and a flask carried by soldiers in the US Civil War and has journeyed five times to <a title="Gettysburg" href="/topic/Gettysburg" >Gettysburg</a> to explore the conflict's most iconic battlefield.</p><p>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 <a title="Australia" href="/topic/Australia" >Australia</a>'s ambassador to the <span><a title="United States" hre...

2011-05-06T03:30:09ZReuters Life! Online Reporttag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-05-06:/48-hours-historic-charleston-south-carolina-4777059a/

<div><p><a title="Charleston (South Carolina)" href="/topic/Charleston+(South+Carolina)" >CHARLESTON, South Carolina</a> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span> Life!) - On the eve of the American Civil War, Charleston boasted of being one of the wealthiest and most glamorous cities in the world.</p><p>By the end of the bloody conflict, even <a title="Union Army" href="/topic/Union+Army" >Union Army</a> <span><a title="William Tecumseh Sherman" hre...

2011-04-12T10:00:17ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-04-12:/shots-mark-150-years-start-civil-war-4766699a/

<div><p><span><a title="Charleston (South Carolina)" href="/topic/Charleston+(South+Carolina)" >CHARLESTON, South Carolina</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - In the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday, about two dozen <span>Union Army</span> re-enactors raised a 33-star American flag over <span><a title="Fort Sumter National Monument" href="/topic/Fort+Sumter+National+Monument" >Fort Sumter</a></span> in <span>South Carolina</span>'s <span...

2011-04-12T04:30:20ZAFP American Editiontag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-04-12:/marks-150th-anniversary-start-civil-war-4766564a/

<div><p>Americans on Tuesday mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the US Civil War, a bloody conflict that historians say still deeply influences the <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >United States</a>. </p><p>"The Civil War is one of the most significant events in American history in terms of the way the American nation was defined," said <span>William Link</span>, a historian at the <span><a title="University of Florida" href="/topic/University+of+Florida" >University...

2011-04-08T09:00:13ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-04-08:/solemn-tribute-mark-150-years-civil-wars-start-4765239a/

<div><p><span><a title="Charleston (South Carolina)" href="/topic/Charleston+(South+Carolina)" >CHARLESTON, South Carolina</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - At dawn on Tuesday, re-enactors dressed and armed as Confederate soldiers will fire cannons toward <span><a title="Fort Sumter National Monument" href="/topic/Fort+Sumter+National+Monument" >Fort Sumter</a></span>, commemorating the first shots of the Civil War 150 years ago...

2011-02-25T03:00:17ZReuters Life! Online Reporttag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2011-02-25:/russia-honors-freedom-serfs-american-slaves-4746856a/

<div><p><span><a title="Moscow" href="/topic/Moscow" >MOSCOW</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span> Life!) - They wrote letters to each other, were both assassinated in public, and led separate campaigns to free large swathes of their countrymen.</p><p>Czar Alexander II and <span>President <a title="Abraham Lincoln" href="/topic/Abraham+Lincoln" >Abraham Lincoln</a></span> now share the spotlight in a new exhibit, which <a title="Russia...

2010-12-25T08:00:16ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-12-25:/civil-war-message-opened-decoded-coming-4719800a/

<div id="subtitle">Corked since the Civil War, vial opened to reveal a coded message to a desperate general</div><div><p>A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in <span><a title="Vicksburg" href="/topic/Vicksburg" >Vicksburg</a></span> on the day the <span>Mississippi</span> city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.</p><p>The dispatch offered no hope to doomed <span>Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton</span>: ...

2010-12-22T15:30:23ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-12-22:/sc-archaeologists-confederate-wreck-4718466a/

<div id="subtitle">Archaeologists hope to learn about <a title="Confederate Navy" href="/topic/Confederate+Navy" >Confederate Navy</a> from gunboat wreckage believed found in SC</div><div><p>The recent discovery of what is believed to be a Confederate gunboat scuttled by its own crew in the Civil War's waning days could yield valuable knowledge about the South's sputtering attempts to maintain its own Navy, <span>South Carolina</span>'s state archaeologist said Wednesday.</p><p>In November, <spa...

2010-12-10T11:30:33ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-12-10:/civil-wars-150th-anniversary-stirs-debate-race-4710409a/

<div id="subtitle">Blue and shades of gray: Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on the role of slavery</div><div><p>At <span>South Carolina</span>'s Secession Gala, men in frock coats and militia uniforms and women in hoopskirts will sip mint juleps as a band called Unreconstructed plays "Dixie." In <span>Georgia</span>, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And <span>Alabama</span> will hold a mock swearing-in of <span>Confederate President Jefferson Davis</span>.</p>...

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2010-12-25T08:01:19ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-12-25:/photo/message-bottle-2402163p/

In this Jan. 14, 2009 image shows a Civil War bottle with a message that was tucked inside at the <a title="Museum of the Confederacy" href="/topic/Museum+of+the+Confederacy" >Museum of the Confederacy</a> in <a title="Richmond (Virginia)" href="/topic/Richmond+(Virginia)" >Richmond, Va.</a> The message to <a title="John Pemberton" href="/topic/John+Pemberton" >Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton</a> says reinforcements will not be arriving. The encrypted dispatch was dated July 4, 1863 _ the date of Pem...

2010-05-13T10:18:43ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-05-13:/photo/endangered-battlefields-2261904p/

FILE - This May 3, 2005 file photo provided by <a title="Arizona State Parks Department" href="/topic/Arizona+State+Parks+Department" >Arizona State Parks Department</a>, shows a Civil War Monument that was erected in Picacho Peak State Park near Eloy Az. The <a title="Civil War Preservation Trust" href="/topic/Civil+War+Preservation+Trust" >Civil War Preservation Trust</a>'s 2010 edition of the nation's most endangered battlefields includes Picacho Peak in <a title="Arizona" href="/topic/Arizo...

2010-04-27T15:46:27ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-04-27:/photo/civil-war-archives-2243401p/

<a title="Ken Burns" href="/topic/Ken+Burns" >Director Ken Burns</a> speaks at a preview of the "Discovering the Civil War" exhibit at the National Archives in <a title="Washington, DC" href="/topic/Washington%2c+DC" >Washington</a>, on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)<div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2010  <a href="http://www.ap.org">AP News</a></div></div><div><p></p><br /><br /></div>...

2010-03-26T22:12:07ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-03-26:/photo/baldy-2180765p/

FILE- In this file photo from Feb. 28, 2003 the mounted head of Old Baldy, the war horse of <a title="George Meade" href="/topic/George+Meade" >Gen. George Meade</a>, is seen with some of Meade's effects at the <a title="Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia" href="/topic/Civil+War+and+Underground+Railroad+Museum+of+Philadelphia" >Civil War Library and Museum</a> in <a title="Philadelphia" href="/topic/Philadelphia" >Philadelphia</a>. The warhorse's preserved head was the sub...

2010-06-12T11:35:34ZAP Newstag:americancivilwarinfo.com,2010-06-12:/photo/civil-war-sesquicentennial-1517630p/

FILE - This Monday, April 27, 2009 file photo shows the <a title="United Daughters of the Confederacy" href="/topic/United+Daughters+of+the+Confederacy" >United Daughters of the Confederacy</a> as they host an observance of Confederate <a title="Memorial Day" href="/topic/Memorial+Day" >Memorial Day</a> at the <a title="Alabama State Capitol" href="/topic/Alabama+State+Capitol" >Alabama State Capitol</a> in <a title="Montgomery" href="/topic/Montgomery" >Montgomery</a>. For the Civil War's 150th...