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Having lost Norfolk, Va., in March 1862, Confederates realized the James River was open for a Federal advance on Richmond. The Confederate army needed to select a position along the river that would command all traffic on the James. That second-line was a bluff overlooking a sharp bend in the river. The bluff, named...
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...
City officials are set to decide what has become a contentious fight over whether a funeral home should be allowed on the site of a Civil War battlefield. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/JxX0SU) that the Jonesboro City Council is scheduled to take up the matter at a Monday night meeting. At issue is an...
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...
150 years ago, part of history was written right in our own backyard. “When you think of the Civil War, you think of Virginia and South Carolina, you don’t think of Elmira, NY. But it had a big impact on this community and that state,” said Bob Roe of the Chemung Valley Living History...
For veteran Civil War reenactor Tom Fearebay, the line between playing history and living history blurs each time he pretends to die. A hulking man with a burly beard, Fearebay, 55, of Framingham, recalled yesterday a gun salute he participated in at a burial service in 2004 for a Confederate soldier. As each shot...
Learn to fight in the Civil War as a reenactor this Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Framingham Centre Common. The training is in advance of the Civil War encampment scheduled for May 4-6 on the Framingham Centre Common. Sponsored by the 12th Georgia Volunteer Infantry and the Framingham...
NEW LONDON – Dover Museum, 213 W. Main St. in New London, has received funding from Humanities Iowa, a private, nonprofit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to host a presentation, “Iowans Who Fought Against the Union,” by David Connon at 1:30 p.m. April 22. Connon is an historical interpreter at...
The Rowan Museum has recently acquired a Union soldier’s letter from the Salisbury Confederate Prison, according to Kaye Brown Hirst, executive director of the museum. To celebrate the upcoming Salisbury Prison Symposium, the museum will display the letter, beginning Wednesday and keep it as an exhibit through April 16. It will then be taken...
The Portsmouth, Va., City Council postponed action on a proposal to designate May as a month to honor those who backed the Union during the Civil War. The Portsmouth History Commission has already designated May as “Southern Unionist History Month,” The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported. History Commissioner Greg Eatroff, who moved to Virginia from New...
