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Mohawk Valley hears about the end of the Civil War: This week in history
Utica Observer-Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 months ago1865, 159 years ago Surrender News of the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to Union Army...
Revolver of Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis fetches $470K at auction
Military Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA revolver worn by Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis on the day of his...
The shortest American Civil War summary you'll ever read
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...
Visiting Our Past: Mica, war bring changes to North Toe, Spruce Pine in 1860s
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen J. Myron Houston wrote his history of Henson Creek, a cove 12 miles up U.S. 19E from Spruce...
It took a century for Tacoma’s only Black naval Civil War veteran to get his headstone
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 2 years agoFor the past century, a row of military graves in Tacoma’s Oakwood Hill Cemetery has been...
'The proudest man of the proudest nation': Petersburg pays tribute to 18th-century British officer
The Progress-Index via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMaj. Gen. William Phillips, who led forces against Petersburg in American Revolution, is the...
Editor describes Confederate memoir at Root House in Marietta
Marietta Daily Journal, Ga. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoApr. 17—MARIETTA — A memoir by John C. Reed, a Civil War line officer in the 8th Georgia Infantry who recorded his first-hand account of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, was recently ...
Murdaugh murder books open new windows into SC’s most notorious crime saga
The State via Yahoo News· 3 months agoUp to now the Alex Murdaugh murder saga has been mostly covered by daily journalists, podcasts,...
Chicago history timeline: Revisiting 175 years of breaking news from the pages of the Chicago...
Chicago Tribune· 2 years agoSince its first edition was published on June 10, 1847, the Chicago Tribune has covered every milestone in the city’s history. Here’s a look back at more than 175 years of breaking news, Pulitzer-winning ...