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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 ...
Bidders will fight with their dollars next week at an Ohio auction house for the sword of the Civil War Union general who led a scorched-earth campaign across Georgia and coined the phrase “War ...
Historically low water levels on the Mississippi River have revealed a walkway to what is typically an island jutting out of the murky river waters to human remains that have been submerged for an ...
The Rosensteels maintained their museum for another ten years following the purchase from Richards, but in 1971 the family that had been collecting Civil War artifacts for over a century chose to sell. The new steward was the National Park Service in 1967. [1] [4] Over 89,000 artifacts and the museum building passed into the hands of the ...
They and/or their descendants have held a reunion every year since, the only U.S. organization of its kind. The association operates the 103rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Museum in Sheffield Lake, Ohio, that houses, preserves and displays historic Civil War relics which have been inherited, collected by or donated to the descendants of the members.
By Sea and by River: The Naval History of the Civil War. Knopf; reprint, Da Capo, n.d. ISBN 0-306-80367-4. Browning, Robert M. Jr. (1993). From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. University of Alabama. ISBN 0-8173-5019-5. Davis, William C. (1975). Duel Between the First Ironclads. Doubleday.
For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities at a funeral home and cemetery in Seattle.
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