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For 4,600 veterans of the Civil War, lasting peace didn’t come until they reached the Green-Wood Cemetery.. The Brooklyn burial ground is home to more dead from both sides of the Mason-Dixon ...
QUINCY — With thousands of Union troops mustered at the start of the Civil War, federal officials negotiated contracts and prices with manufacturers for needed supplies including guns.
NEW YORK (AP) --The first Civil War casualty to be buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn was a 12-year-old drummer for a New York regiment.Clarence McKenzie, a local boy fatally wounded in an ...
Unfortunately, the construction boom has reached one of Brooklyn's most notable structures: The pre-Civil War-era Carpenter Gothic (or New England Gothic) wood frame church at 809 Jefferson Avenue in ...
Mysterious ‘old piece of wood’ from beach could be Civil War artifact, NC experts say By Mark Price. March 15, 2020 4:53 PM.
We were amazed and thrilled to see the long crumbling pre-Civil War wood-frame house at 173 St. James Place has been restored to its former glory — and then some! — when we happened by Tuesday. What a ...
In actuality, “civil war” uses the basic “civil,” the one that’s rooted in the Latin “civis” for “townsman.” That one has several meanings: “Of a citizen or citizens.” ...
ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Allendale Township has decided pursuing criminal charges against the people who vandalized a controversial Civil War statue would be counterproductive. After a ...
PARKERSBURG — Artifacts, many from the Civil War era, found in October at Fort Boreman Park were presented Monday morning to the Wood County Commission. Among the relics found by the 35th State ...
An outdoor Civil War banquet highlighting a Chattanooga neighborhood's role in battles of the Civil War will be held Friday, Sept. 27, in the Fort Wood National Historic District.