Tag: civil war
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July 02, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
You all have probably heard of the Trail of Tears, when the Cherokee Indians were sent from North Carolina and Georgia to Oklahoma by force in the 1800's.
You may also know, especially if you are from . . .
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April 05, 2009 12:29 AM EDT --
Today our quadding group took a break from nature and went instead to Green Valley Park in Payson, Arizona to go back in time to 1862 during the Civil War. Actors from a group called “We Make . . .
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July 17, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
Despite the fact the American Civil War ended over 142 years ago, little things occur from time to time to remind us of its human cost. Those events are sometimes ironic but always touching . . .
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March 06, 2009 05:41 PM EST --
Today, I walked to Kolb Farm, about a 15 minute walk from my house. I see it nearly every day, and I love it, but I have never actually walked there and stopped to take pictures. But I've decided . . .
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March 10, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
I don't have many more historical places within easy walking distance, but here's one more that's about 15 minutes walk from the house. It's off the road a bit, and I had to figure . . .
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April 11, 2009 01:09 PM EDT --
My first Civil War reenactment of the year is coming up on the weekend of April 18 and 19. This year I have move up the ranks again and will be a Major instead of a 1st Lieutenant. . . .
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July 02, 2009 01:38 PM EDT --
We have a new Georgia law stating that April is officially Confederate History Month.
I could understand a "Civil War History" month. I write a lot about the Civil War myself. And here in the South, . . .
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November 07, 2007 02:19 PM EST --
Darling Husband and I are living historians. Civil War reenactors. Those nut jobs running around in wool and long dresses in the heat in the south.
If I had a nickel . . .
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November 24, 2007 01:00 AM EST --
"All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mothers' son, some sisters' brother, some daughters' father. Each one of them a whole person . . .
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May 26, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
Taps
John Butterfield is remembered as the founder of the Butterfield Overland Mail, founded in 1858, that opened the west for passenger and mail service from Memphis and St., Louis to San Francisco . . .
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December 09, 2008 10:45 AM EST --
I have been a reenacter of the Civil War for some years now. What I had to learn very early was the safety rules of a mock engagement. As a reenacter I have the full equipment including rifle, . . .
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November 16, 2009 12:47 PM EST --
I'm interested to see what kind of response this gets: name a famous Civil War figure. "Famous" is relative, of course, but it has to be a real person that can easily be looked up. One entry . . .
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July 09, 2008 03:41 PM EDT --
This has probably been discussed on here before, but as I am new here I am curious to hear what peoples thoughts about the Civil War. I have always had a fascination with it since I was a small child . . .
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November 27, 2006 11:15 AM EST --
dictionary.com-- civil war:a war between political factions or regions within the same country.
This morning on the Today Show. There was an announcement that NBC has decided to call the . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Last fall, I was invited to a Civil War Reenactment down in Franklin, La. A historical marker was placed at the site . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:44 PM EDT --
I live near Andersonville Georgia. Andersonville is full of echos, in the prison and in the cemetery you can hear echos. The echos of 45,000 prisoners who were at Andersonville from February 1864 . . .
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September 10, 2007 04:08 PM EDT --
My old apartment had a very high likelihood of being haunted. During the Civil War, the town in which I lived played host to a very small "battle," more accurately described as a skirmish. After . . .
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September 28, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
It was in the mist of the Civil War that West Virginia became a state. It was the year 1863, June 20th. The Union needed soldiers to serve in the Union Army. It was . . .
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April 14, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate
sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at
Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five . . .
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May 28, 2009 12:54 AM EDT --
A bus driver is conducting a tour of famous Civil War battle sites around Marietta, Georgia.
"Here," he points out at one spot, "is where the Southern troops routed a whole regiment of Yankees. . . .
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