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Archaeologists Just Stumbled Across An Unexploded Civil War Artillery Shell At Gettysburg
While sweeping the grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park as part of a rehabilitation project, an archaeologist ...
Raleigh honors Black Civil War soldiers with Juneteenth tribute at National Cemetery
On Juneteenth, Raleigh pays tribute to the often-overlooked U.S. Colored Troops who played a pivotal role in the Union's ...
Honoring Black Civil War soldiers: Kentucky town shining light on 5th US colored cavalry
On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...
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Juneteenth event honors 226 people who were enslaved at Smithfield plantation
Juneteenth, observed on June 19th, is a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Historic Smithfield ...
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Civil War Dead Honored at Flint Hill Cemetery
The marker unveiling, set against luminaria and leaf-hidden lighting, honored the sacrifices of the Civil War dead buried there. Speakers, from David Farmer, president of the Flint Hill Cemetery ...
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Iowa’s Civil War dead will be remembered on this Decoration Day
“We’re honoring the soldiers of the Civil War who were from Delhi and Buck Creek, and the event is the first celebrated at that time, August 24th of 1865,” Sack says. “The war was over in ...
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RETRO FIND: Graves of Black Civil War heroes cared for by community
Some veterans get parades and parties, taps and 21 guns, but tucked into this thicket of trees is an ode to war dead most don't even ... soldiers who fought in the Civil War, 12 of them and ...