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  2. Johnson's Island - Wikipedia

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    Johnson's Island is a 300-acre (120 ha) island in Sandusky Bay, located on the coast of Lake Erie, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city of Sandusky, Ohio.It was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate officers captured during the American Civil War.

  3. Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island - Wikipedia

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    The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony was a safe haven for slaves seeking refuge with the Union Army during the Civil War. Most freedmen on Roanoke Island assisted the Union Army: others joined the army as soldiers when the United States Colored Troops were founded, and some men worked as spies, scouts and guides, since they knew the area and its waterways well.

  4. Confederate military relics dumped during Union offensive ...

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    Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel forces in ...

  5. South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum

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    The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum (SCCRRMM) is located at 301 Gervais Street in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, in a building shared with the South Carolina State Museum. It was founded in 1896, and is the oldest museum in Columbia and the third oldest in the state. [ 1 ]

  6. Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History

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    Later, the theme expanded to include Civil War pieces as well. Western and Atlantic Railroad No. 3: The General, on display in Kennesaw, Georgia. In the mid- to late 1990, the property of the former Glover Machine Works was to be demolished. The buildings on this site, having sat vacant for nearly 50 years, still contained records, locomotive ...

  7. Skirmish at Cedar Creek - Wikipedia

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    The Skirmish at Cedar Creek, also known as Camp Mooney or McGirt's Creek, was a small engagement of the American Civil War fought in present-day Jacksonville, Florida on March 1, 1864. It was fought between a small Confederate States Army outpost and the 40th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army , and resulted in 35 casualties.

  8. Civil War-era relics unearthed on dried banks of Mississippi ...

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  9. Winchester, Virginia, in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the Confederate militia mustering in Winchester, Virginia, from Harper's Weekly in 1861. The city of Winchester, Virginia, and the surrounding area, were the site of numerous battles during the American Civil War, as contending armies strove to control the lower Shenandoah Valley.