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There’s a bit of an historical mystery in the Orangeburg County town of Springfield. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports (http://bit.ly/w6Oxb0) that Wayne and Lydia Lackey were recently preparing land for planting corn when Lydia Lackey found an unusual, weathered marker. Her husband sandblasted it to find it was United Confederate Veterans Iron...
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum invites you to join us for our monthly Art & Lunch program. On Thursday February 9th, at 12:05pm, the museum will be showing The Diary of a Confederate Soldier in the Museum’s Turner Auditorium. This film from the American Heritage series presents a Confederate soldier’s experiences during the Civil War....
There are many great Robert E. Lee Quotes that illustrate the wisdom of the great leader of the Confederates cause during the American Civil War. “Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” “Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You...
Whether you are traveling East or West — U.S. Highway 290 is a busy, well-traveled highway. And along the way you’ll find attractive, eye-catching billboards with a message. But if you take a closer look — you’ll find there is more that meets the eye. Whether you are traveling East or West — U.S....
WILLIAMSBURG – The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum will celebrate the the 205th anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee, Jan. 19, 1807, by featuring “The Lee Moment” program on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. The hour-long program will feature Southern Horizon, a Civil War-era band, as well as a narrative to...
Several Sedalia residents say they were shocked to find fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan on their property during Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The fliers were found Monday in several neighborhoods, mostly in eastern Sedalia. Sedalia police Lt. William Chapman says whoever distributed the fliers put them on windshields, or in paper bags...
Shortly after the 19th annual Civil War Show opened Saturday, a long line formed at the table of Charleston Underground Civil War Relics, where dealer Bryan Davis was giving free feedback to owners on an array of relics, as well as a few fakes. Among the owners was Joe Roberts, who wanted to find...
Group seeks to add to its roster of Civil War sites in Nashville On a chilly January morning in Nashville, Ellen McClanahan and her father, Philip Duer, toured Shy’s Hill and talked about possible locations for six new signs that will outline the details of the Civil Warbattle that happened there. The two sit on...
The plaque from this WWI memorial has been missing for a year, a theft overshadowed by the burning of Birminghamâs Christmas tree by copper thieves. Several officials said theyâll start trying to have a replacement made for the statue, which stands near other monuments in Linn Park. (The Birmingham News/Michelle Campbell) BIRMINGHAM, Alabama —...
REIDSVILLE, N.C. — A Confederate history group plans to erect a statue in a Reidsville cemetery filled with Civil War dead to replace a monument knocked over in a wreck earlier this year. The News & Record of Greensboro reported (http://bit.ly/rNy0n7) the United Daughters of the Confederacy said the group voted unanimously to move the...
