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On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...
While writing about a slave raid, author and researcher Edda Fields-Black discovered her own family tie to the raid in the ...
A new exhibit is documenting the often untold stories of hundreds of African American men from Talbot County who fought for ...
During the war, he wrote over 262 letters edited by Katherine B. Jeter in A Man and His Boat: The Civil War Letters of Jonathan H. Carter. Jonathan Hanby Carter surrendered on May 26, 1865. The CSS ...
After the war, the aircraft flew ... and rescue downed airmen and shipwrecked sailors. It was this importance that also made the Catalinas a primary target during the Japanese attack on Pearl ...
Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil War, received the mission of ... “If years are requisite to make a good sailor, surely an equal length of time is ...
On a recent trip to Cleveland, I came upon the stunning Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at ... Cuyahoga County who served the Union during the Civil War and features large-size bronze statues ...
If you had all your limbs during the Civil War, the sky was (apparently ... even after being discovered at the Soldiers and Sailors home in 1911, where he was sent after breaking a leg in an ...
As curator of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum ... assembly of gunpowder-containing cartridges, during the early stages of the Civil War. “The arsenal, because there was so much ...