American Civil War

Learn about Civil War May 2 - Minnesota

Spend a Saturday in the American Civil War on Saturday, May 2, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at The Landing – Minnesota River Heritage Park, Shakopee.

Visit the encampments, see how Minnesota soldiers lived, hear the roar of musketry and cannon. Enjoy a special visit by President Abraham Lincoln. Ride a trolley pulled by Percheron horses and join a guided tour of several historic buildings.

Cost is $7 for ages 12+ and $5 for ages 2-11 and seniors; children under 2 free.

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Going Back to Go Forward
By GreenmanTim
For all my delight in the minutia of the past, and my capacity to retain and relate vast amounts of historical data and statistics, I find as I grow older that my first obsessive love of the history of the American Civil War has ...
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American Civil War Monuments and Memorials - Union Confederate ...
Text on Monument Base: Front of Monument: IN MEMORY OF THOSE BRAVE MEN OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY WHO DIED IN THE WAR TO SAVE THE UNION, 1861-1865.East Side: VICKSBURGWest Side: GETTYSBURGSouth Side: SHILOH. Description of Cavalry Officer: ...
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Civil War Days
August 16, 2008 10 AM Location: Fort Point. The American Civil War Association will bring the past to life at Fort Point with military music and colorful uniforms.
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Matthew Brady and other's coverage of the American civil war 1861-1865.
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Captain Semmes and the CSS Alabama

Manet and the ACW - 3: Captain Semmes and the CSS Alabama
By Rene Tyree
The authors adeptly set the scene by providing the the reasons why an American Civil War naval battle would take place in European waters and capture the imagination of artist Edouard Manet. They chronicle the debate that led to ...
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6th Iowa Infantry - Losses
By noreply@blogger.com (Jim Miller)
He afterwards made a national reputation by his gallant defense of Allatoona, where he received the historic dispatch signalled from Sherman, to " Hold the Fort, etc." SOURCE: Fox, William F., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War ...
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Graduate Student Has Questions for Reenactors
By feeds@yuku.com (amrankin27)
My name is Angela Rankin and I am a graduate student at the University of Southern Maine in the American and New England Studies program. My background is in social studies education, and I am focusing on history within my current ...
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African Americans of Gettysburg
By storyteller
Margaret Palm was a colorful character in Gettysburg’s African-American community during the mid-nineteenth century. Before the Civil War she served as a “conductor” along the local branch of the Underground Railroad, ...
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Artifacts from the Civil War Encampments
By Mark Trickett
The illustrated example, a Gardner bullet common to the Confederate forces, is one amongst many different types of bullet fired during the American Civil War. This bullet, approximately 0.58 caliber, is made of lead (the “white rust” is ...
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Sailing and fighting for freedom

Civil War cannons to be fired Saturday
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
The artillery, which represents soldiers who were at Camp Nelson, Ky. in July 1864, honors African-American soliders in the Civil War. ...
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Sailing and fighting for freedom
Royal Gazette - Hamilton,Bermuda
This epic struggle for freedom culminated in the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. In the second in a two-part series, Kevin Grigsby looks at the role ...
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Local teachers learn about pre-Civil War slavery at Somerset Place

Local teachers learn about pre-Civil War slavery at Somerset Place
Salisbury Post - Salisbury,NC,USA
... and musical performances and hands-on activities designed to bring to life the daily work of an enslaved African American in the pre-Civil War South. ...

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Dotpenn - Civil War Reenactor Asks Town Council to Condemn Seige ...
State College Borough Council has once again jumped into a contentious fray–this time the American Civil War. Lt. General Robert Fitzhugh Beauregard Lukeswarmer, of the 1st Virginia Mounted Artillery Reenactment Brigade, ...
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Stay Tuned
By Kevin Levin
This coming Wednesday the Board of Directors at the American Civil War Center at Tredegar will consider a petition from the Sons of Confederate Veterans to place a statue of Jefferson Davis holding hands with his son and Jim Limber near ...
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Civil War Battles Antietam (2008)
By Basisfield(Basisfield)
The battle was a real turning point in the American Civil War. No more would citizen soldiers populate both armies. Rather, they would now be known as professional veterans. For the Confederacy, the brilliance of Robert E. ...
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Top 10 Civil War Forums
By Brett Schulte
It is run by Dick Weeks (aka Shotgun), a man who knows quite a bit about the Civil War and who runs one of the most popular Civil War sites on the web, The American Civil War Home Page. Dick runs a tight ship as moderator, ...
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The So-Called Civil War Was Unnecessary
By Iosue Andreas(Iosue Andreas)
Of course, the War of Northern Agression / War Between The States / Civil War was not about the barbaric practice of slavery, and the Emancipation Proclamation was only an afterthought, freeing only "slaves within any State or ...
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