Trace Adkins' talks country, canines and movie casting

2011-11-14T11:30:20Z

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,

Descendants maintain Confederate graves, memory in Virginia

2011-08-20T09:30:07Z

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 interpr...

Civil War comes back to life on Virginia battlefield

2011-07-24T01:30:06Z

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 this battle 150 years ago, though not ultimately the war...

African American Civil War Museum gets new home

2011-07-18T21:30:12Z

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 Mu...

South Carolina beach city remembers black Civil War soldiers

2011-07-16T08:30:13Z

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...

Pieces of history, passed down, pawned, priced

2011-06-21T02:30:54Z

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...

North Carolina city honors black Civil War soldiers

2011-06-02T16:30:08Z

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 "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 reminde...

The unlikely US Civil War buff: Australia's envoy

2011-05-15T18:30:30Z

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 to the

48 Hours in historic Charleston, South Carolina

2011-05-06T03:30:09Z

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

First shots mark 150 years since start of Civil War

2011-04-12T10:00:17Z

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - In the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday, about two dozen Union Army re-enactors raised a 33-star American flag over Fort Sumter in South Carolina's

US marks 150th anniversary of start of Civil War

2011-04-12T04:30:20Z

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 United States.

"The Civil War is one of the most significant events in American history in terms of the way the American nation was defined," said William Link, a historian at the University...

Solemn tribute to mark 150 years since Civil War's start

2011-04-08T09:00:13Z

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - At dawn on Tuesday, re-enactors dressed and armed as Confederate soldiers will fire cannons toward Fort Sumter, commemorating the first shots of the Civil War 150 years ago...

Russia honors freedom of serfs, American slaves

2011-02-25T03:00:17Z

MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - They wrote letters to each other, were both assassinated in public, and led separate campaigns to free large swathes of their countrymen.

Czar Alexander II and President Abraham Lincoln now share the spotlight in a new exhibit, which Corked since the Civil War, vial opened to reveal a coded message to a desperate general

A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.

The dispatch offered no hope to doomed Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton: ...

SC archaeologists say Confederate wreck found

2010-12-22T15:30:23Z

Archaeologists hope to learn about Confederate Navy from gunboat wreckage believed found in SC

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, South Carolina's state archaeologist said Wednesday.

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Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on race

2010-12-10T11:30:33Z

Blue and shades of gray: Civil War's 150th anniversary stirs debate on the role of slavery

At South Carolina'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 Georgia, they will re-enact the state's 1861 secession convention. And Alabama will hold a mock swearing-in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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Lesson Plan Ideas for A Soldier's Heart: Write a Character Sketch

2010-11-30T12:37:27Z

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Thomas Stonewall Jackson

2010-11-30T12:39:54Z

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Historic Courthouse Squares in Western Tennessee: Haywood County

2010-11-29T14:54:23Z

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Historic Courthouse Squares in Western Tennessee: Hardeman County

2010-11-29T14:54:22Z

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History

2010-11-29T14:59:30Z

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People

2010-11-29T14:59:26Z

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Ely Parker is the First Native Commissioner of Indian Affairs

2010-11-29T14:53:59Z

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Abraham Lincoln and His Fight For Justice

2010-11-29T14:53:57Z

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Antietam Monuments

2010-11-29T14:38:17Z

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Civil War

2010-11-29T14:50:50Z

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Jefferson Davis - His place In United States History

2010-11-29T14:53:48Z

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Understanding Mint Marks on U.S. Coins

2010-11-29T14:53:45Z

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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the 20th Maine at Little Roundtop

2010-11-29T14:53:41Z

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Irish Immigrants to America

2010-11-29T14:53:40Z

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Rocket

2010-11-29T14:59:18Z

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Reconstructing History-Historical Costume Patterns

2010-11-29T14:31:41Z

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Gettysburg's Annual Remembrance Day Parade

2010-11-29T14:53:22Z

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Hood's Tennessee Campaign: Part 1, Spring Hill

2010-11-29T14:53:17Z

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The US Civil War in December 1862

2010-11-29T14:53:05Z

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Jackson

2010-11-29T14:59:11Z

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The Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln's "Little Speech"

2010-11-29T14:53:00Z

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Children's Crusade: the Civil War & the Liljenquist Collection

2010-11-29T14:52:59Z

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McPherson

2010-11-29T14:59:02Z

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Zouaves

2010-11-29T14:43:14Z

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From Election to Sumter: How the Union Fell Apart

2010-11-29T14:50:48Z

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The Civil War Attack on Washington

2010-11-29T14:52:45Z

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This Month in History

2010-11-29T14:50:48Z

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USS Hartford

2010-11-30T13:56:56Z

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General McClellan McKiernan

2010-11-30T13:51:34Z

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Geography of Decatur

2010-11-29T14:43:02Z

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Early years

2010-11-29T14:58:48Z

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The US Civil War in November 1862

2010-11-29T14:52:06Z

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Letters to the Editor

2010-11-29T14:58:43Z

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Message in a Bottle

2010-12-25T08:01:19Z

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

Endangered Battlefields

2010-05-13T10:18:43Z

FILE - This May 3, 2005 file photo provided by Arizona State Parks Department, shows a Civil War Monument that was erected in Picacho Peak State Park near Eloy Az. The Civil War Preservation Trust's 2010 edition of the nation's most endangered battlefields includes Picacho Peak in Director Ken Burns speaks at a preview of the "Discovering the Civil War" exhibit at the National Archives in Washington, on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Old Baldy

2010-03-26T22:12:07Z

FILE- In this file photo from Feb. 28, 2003 the mounted head of Old Baldy, the war horse of Gen. George Meade, is seen with some of Meade's effects at the Civil War Library and Museum in Philadelphia. The warhorse's preserved head was the sub...

Civil War Sesquicentennial

2010-06-12T11:35:34Z

FILE - This Monday, April 27, 2009 file photo shows the United Daughters of the Confederacy as they host an observance of Confederate Memorial Day at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. For the Civil War's 150th...

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