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US soldiers’ remains found at historic Revolutionary War landmark are revealed to be from a completely different era
Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the ...
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Civil War comes to life for Thorpe students
Learning about the Civil War in a textbook is one way to teach it. Seeing it and experiencing it in person brings a whole new perspective. That’s why Jim Thorpe High School history teacher Chris Holub ...
Archaeologists Were Digging Up a Hospital—and Found the Skeletons of 4 Confederate Soldiers
As archaeologists with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation excavated a site in search of American Revolution history, the ...
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Archaeologists discovered a buried arsenal of US Civil War weapons during a cleanup operation on the Congaree River in South Carolina.
It started as a mundane environmental cleanup along the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, and ended as a trip back ...
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How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War
Born in Maryland to free Black American parents, Benson had emigrated with his family to the West African colony at the age of 6. By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the ...
A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers’ remains. It’s trying to identify them
Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.