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On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. They sailed in stealth up the Coosaw River until ...
"The Civil War and American Art" 10/04/12 Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky, 1861. ... was used to make Parrott guns, a staple of artillery used by the Union.
The world came to understand the Civil War through the eyes of battlefield artists. Living alongside the troops, combat illustrators risked death, injury, and disease to convey the blow-by-blow of ...
Capt. Robert Townsend, a Civil War naval commander and member of a prominent Albany family after whom Townsend Park is named, packed much swashbuckling adventure into a life cut short at sea at 46 ...
Vermont’s Statehouse is known as a living museum, filled with historic and storied pieces of art. That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran ...