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The Civil War raged from 1861 to 1865 between Union forces of the North and the forces of the Confederacy from the South. Slavery and other economic and political tensions set off the conflict ...
Last Updated on July 15, 2025 by Matt Staff 1865 stands as an undeniable turning point throughout American history. It marks the end of the Civil War, ...
ELIZABETH — In observance of Black History Month, the Freeholders Gallery features an exhibit of vintage photographs of “Union County Black Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War” from a ...
ELIZABETH — In observance of Black History Month, the Freeholders Gallery features an exhibit of vintage photographs of “Union County Black Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War” from a ...
Nancy Wilk is the co-owner of Venue 1848, where a Civil War art exhibit is currently being displayed. This collection includes panoramic photos of battlefields in the Civil War, paintings, prints ...
Vintage Find in Landfill: A Civil War Projectile. By Matt Zapotosky. May 20, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. A landfill employee sifting through the rubbish yesterday for material that could be recycled by ...
At the outbreak of the Civil War, the U.S. Post Office Department had been delivering about five letters per capita annually. During the war, the average soldier sent more than five times that many.
Folklorist Bobby Horton, who intertwines vocal music accompanied by four vintage instruments with his stories of times past, entertained an appreciative crowd at the Hammond Branch of the ...
These chambers operated during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, and were the work of communists fighting for the government side as it battled troops under fascist Gen. Francisco Franco.