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A helium shortage is threatening to deflate a western New York museum‘s plans for the July 4 launch of a manned balloon like the ones used in the Civil War to guide Union artillery against Confederate positions. The Intrepid is a centerpiece of the Genesee Country Museum’s 150th anniversary commemoration of the Civil War. It replicates one...
WASHINGTON – Dr. Adalbert Volck lead a most interesting life. A trained dentist, Volck plied his profession in Baltimore during the mid-19th century. But the good dentist also had some intriguing sidelines. As a Southern loyalist during the Civil War, he operated a safe house for rebel soldiers and agents, smuggled medical supplies to...
MOULTRIE — The Moultrie McNeill UDC Chapter 661’s Confederate Memorial Service was held on Sunday, April 29. The guest speaker was Jim Parrish of Tallahassee, Fla. Due to his extensive ten-year research covering the 50th Georgia Infantry, of which Colquitt County had company H, he was so informed about the local Confederates that he...
The Civil War comes alive at Gibson Ranch this weekend. Visitors will have the opportunity to tour civilian, Union and Confederate camps, witness battle re-enactments, and enjoy period music, food and crafts. You can also hear historic speeches and chat with living history enactors. Plus there will be a horseman demonstration, cannon firings, fashion show, May Day celebration...
Live Oak — A group of people displaying Confederate flags on private property across the street from Suwannee High School, within view of students, caused a disturbance on campus this morning, SHS principal Ted Roush said. It is not yet clear if the group displaying the flags in the parking lot of Johnson’s Radio...
- In a somber, reflective ceremony, dozens of descendants of Southern troops gathered on the Battery in Charleston to mark Confederate Memorial Day in the state where the Civil War began. With Fort Sumter in the distance, a wreath was laid Thursday in memory of the Southern defenders of Charleston. About three dozen people...
A century and a half after these men fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, another group of men remembered them Saturday when the Sons of Confederate Veterans held a memorial on the UNC campus. The short service, with three uniformed soldiers and a lone trumpeter, drew 10 people to the Confederate War...
Confederate History Month, which was celebrated in April, is significant as it is the month the War Between the States began in 1861 and the year it ended in 1865. Gen. Robert E. Lee said, “Duty is the sublimest word in the English language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more....
Danville, VA – The City of Danville played an incredibly important role in the Civil War. It served as the last capital of the Confederacy and was one of the few southern cities with access to a rail line. But something you may not know is the city’s history that’s worth digging for. Danville’s...
here is nothing particularly new about the recent story out of Tennessee, about a girl who was turned away from her prom because her dress looked like a Confederate flag. These sorts of obnoxious acts arise from time to time, often motivated less by overt racism than by misguided loyalties or an urge to...
