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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Photographer Alexander Gardner and his two colleagues, Timothy O’Sullivan and James Gibson, came upon a frightful landscape late on July 5, 1863. Soldiers of the Blue and Gray lay dead virtually everywhere, still littering a battlefield...Horses' Lives Retraced
Life was rough for Civil War soldiers. It was even rougher on their horses. “They broke ’em younger, they rode ’em harder and they died younger,” re-enactor Mike Edwards said at Bennett Place State Historic Site on Saturday. The state historic site held “Join the...Canada & the Civil War
The American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 haunts the United States to this day. Canadians also have an enduring fascination with the conflict that set state against state, community against community, family against family and killed around 750,000 Americans in the North...News from Around the South 6/10 – 6/17
Alabama: Poll: State Should Keep Jefferson Davis Holiday MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama should keep its state holiday in recognition of the birthday of Jefferson Davis, said a majority of respondents to an AL.com poll. AL.com posed the question yesterday, when state...Obiter Dicta
When James Madison was a member of Congress in 1791 and charged with drafting the Bill of Rights, he made Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: 26-mile Revolutionary War trail in SC will remember patriot path to Kings Mountain victory CHEROKEE COUNTY — A 26-mile section of the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail in Read More