Two Virginias, two Civil Wars? The state in the forefront of war remembrance still […]
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Camp Misery Excavation
Students snag chance to probe ‘Camp Misery’ As if the indignity of losing at […]
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James Lighthizer, Civil War Trust President
Education, Preservation, Dedication Civil War Trust President James Lighthizer has made saving endangered battlefields […]
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The Civil War in the New York Times
The New York Times Complete Civil War, 1861-1865 Edited by Harold Holzer and Craig […]
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Surviving a Confederate POW Camp
Survival in an Alabama Slammer:
Inmates at the Confederacy’s Cahaba Federal Prison had little more food and a lot less space than prisoners at Andersonville, but their mortality rate was considerably lower—thanks to one man’s humanity.
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Gideon Welles Blockades Charleston Harbor
The one-way voyage of the Stone Fleet: An aging armada sets course to become […]
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Tribute – CMSgt. Richard Etchberger: What He Did in Laos to Earn a Posthumous Medal of Honor in 2010
Killed 42 years ago, Etchberger single-handedly held off the NVA at a secret radar site and saved the lives of several airmen
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Daily Quiz for January 26, 2011
Sergeant Alvin C. York was awarded the Medal of Honor for performing this extraordinary feat during the First World War.
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Tet – What Really Happened at Hue
As 2,800 bodies were unearthed from mass graves, it was clear the VC had committed atrocity killings against civilians.
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Tet – Embassy Rescue in the Fog of Battle
A rifle company ordered to save the blacked-out embassy flew in with virtually no knowledge of the facts on the ground