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Some Civil War Soldiers' Wounds Emitted an 'Angel's Glow'?
Snopes via Yahoo News· 7 months agoGetty Images According to Timothy B. Smith, a history lecturer at the University of Tennessee at...
Why this caregiver was allowed to follow her husband to battle
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJohn Wesley Powell and his wife, Emma, in Detroit in 1863. U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell served...
How 'the Savior of Cincinnati' kept the city from having its darkest day
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 4 months agoWhat could have been Cincinnati’s darkest day did not turn out that way. During the Civil War,...
Veterans column: Newark's Coman shares on Gen. Halleck taking command after Shiloh
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn February 1862, General Ulysses Grant gained notoriety for his victories, however his superior,...
Mayorkas Almost Become the Second Cabinet Member Impeached. The First Was a Civil War Hero
Time via Yahoo News· 4 months agoSecretary of War William W. Belknap Credit - Heritage Art/Heritage Images/Getty Images House...
Veterans column: Capt. Levi Coman, of Newark, writes of battle at newly named Shiloh camp
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCapt. Levi Coman missed mailing his letter that he started on April 29, 1862, and decided to just...
Visiting Our Past: W. Asheville man lived humble life of neighborly action
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNineteen years ago, I interviewed Thomas Young, then a 91-year-old retired pharmacist in West...
This Civil War amputee led first expedition through the Grand Canyon
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFirst camp of the John Wesley Powell expedition, in the willows, Green River, Wyo. Terr. The Civil...
Veterans Column: A glimpse into the Civil War journal of Charles A. Cook
Newark Advocate via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCharles A. Cook who was serving with Company G of the 1st Veteran Volunteer Engineers continued his...
Today in History: April 6, first modern Olympics begin
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOn April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece. In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee as Confederate forces launched a surprise attack ...