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07/19/11 Until the battle began here on July 21, 1861, Americans on both sides of the Civil War thought of it almost as an adventure. Then came the reality of Manassas.
07/18/11 WASHINGTON (AFP) - With a fife and drum band playing Yankee Doodle and civil war re-enactors sweltering in the summer sun, a museum honoring the contribution of African Americans in the US Civil War moved into its new home in Washington Monday.
07/18/11 PAUL FARHI The Washington Post MANASSAS, Va. There's no shame or glory in "dying" while reenacting a Civil War battle. There are, however, a few hazards in it. You might get stepped on by advancing infantry, or become seriously dehydrated while lying motionless in the summer sun. And make sure you don't die on top of an anthill or a cow patty. For many of the 10,000 or so reenactors who ...
07/18/11 The Confederate shelling of federal-held Fort Sumter in April 1861 launched the start of the Civil War. The First Battle of Bull Run - also known as the First Battle of Manassas - marked the start of the conflict in earnest.
07/18/11 No Arkansas sites are included yet, but a new smart phone app helps visitors enjoy a richer, multi-media experience when touring some of America's Civil War battlefields.
07/18/11 CHARLESTON, S.C. - A series of paintings by a Confederate soldier stationed in Charleston during the Civil War is being made available to a worldwide audience of scholars and Civil War buffs.
07/18/11 AVERASBORO - Folks who know say the tiny Averasboro Battlefield Museum offers as much or more than larger museums that commemorate Civil War battles.
07/17/11 BARBOURSVILLE -- Bud Thompson loves going back to the days of the Civil War. The reenactor from Tazewell, Va., plays a blacksmith, and at one time in his life spent every weekend of the summer heading out to Civil War events to wow kids with his demonstrations and educate folks on how important the role of the blacksmith was during the war.
07/17/11 SALISBURY — Dr. Philip Hatfield, a psychologist and U.S. Army veteran, considers Civil War history his hobby and long ago he became immersed in the men of Company K, also known as the Rowan Rifle Guards. The “Rowan Rifles&rdq ...
07/17/11 McCONNELSVILLE -- A new map will help students and anyone interested in the Civil War to pinpoint important sites in the 13 states of Appalachia, including Ohio.
07/17/11 The idea was a long weekend vacation to visit Civil War sites within a one-day drive of Gadsden. Checking various destinations, Fort Blakely in Baldwin County was a five-hour, 316-mile trip; Savannah, Ga., was a six-hour drive, 367 miles away.
07/17/11 Minnesota's role in the Civil War started not long after the first shots were fired.
07/16/11 FOLLY BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) -- The tiny island city of Folly Beach, South Carolina, paid tribute this week to Union soldiers whose bones were found there more than a century after the Civil War ended.
07/16/11 Even the crops took sides. Life was so divided for Eddie Roberts growing up in Tennessee, he'd envision the tall corn stalks as Union troops and the leafy tobacco plants as Confederate soldiers. Roberts comes from a family with ancestors on both sides of the Civil War, and the rift caused by brother fighting brother was still palpable when he was a teenager. "I heard so much talk," said Roberts ...
07/16/11 This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Cival War and on Saturday, the Marathon County Historical Society held the grand opening of their Civil War exhibit.
07/16/11 The past has become the present with the arrival of the Franklin Historical Society-Kittochtinny hosted PA Civil War Road Show. The exhibition, housed on a 53-foot trailer, visits all of the state's 67 counties.
07/16/11 SUSQUEHANNA DEPOT - A new traveling exhibit of historical photographs that depict Susquehanna County's involvement in the Civil War opened Saturday at Christ Episcopal Church.Betty Smith , curator of the Susquehanna County Historical Society, said the ph
07/16/11 HESPERUS 8211 Pvt. Peter Norris, 40th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, received belated recognition Friday for service to the Union during the Civil War.
07/16/11 DALTON, Ga. (AP) -- Badly outnumbered by Union forces and sensing looming defeat in the Civil War, Confederate Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne made a shocking proposal about a century and a half ago: the Southern government should free black slaves willing to fight in rebel ranks.
07/16/11 The Jefferson County History Center will host the Pennsylvania Civil War Road Show traveling exhibition July 21-23 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The event is free with fair admission.
07/15/11 This Thursday, July 21, marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of First Manassas (popularly known as First Bull Run), the first large-scale engagement of the Civil War. For many in the North, the blood-soaked battlefield and Union retreat mocked their earlier boasts of extinguishing the nascent Confederacy in quick and humiliating fashion. | 
