And it served a critical purpose during the Civil War. “Where Alto Plaza [restaurant] is now [on Route 29] used to be Artillery Hill,” said Carter. “The Confederate soldiers would keep a ...

Seven Army bases whose names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders are all reverting back to their ...

He is now an avid collector and local Civil ... war, Hickox said. Sometimes the Confederate soldiers “wore them upside down,” as an anti-Union statement, he said of the US belt buckles. The ...

Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach ... "They were frequently involved with battles with Confederate ships, and they were used for artillery support for the Union Army," John Leach said.

It started as a mundane environmental cleanup along the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, and ended as a trip back ...

Its vivid scenes illuminate the prison’s overcrowding and deprivation during the Civil War. Almost 13,000 ... officially called Camp Sumter. Confederate artillery overlooked the compound ...

The curfew by Mayor Karen Bass mandates that people in certain zones stay indoors from 8 p.m. Pacific time until 6 a.m. She ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

In the final days of 1863, as the Civil War entered ... 1863, Confederate cavalry units stationed on the peninsula exchanged fire with the Union landing party. At the same time, Marmion’s vessels ...

CULPEPER — The final resting place of Civil War Gen. A.P. Hill has been anything ... Then, when the city of Richmond decided to do away with its Confederate monuments in the wake of George ...