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So concluded Civil War Adventure Camp ("Live the life of a Civil War Soldier!"), an overnight immersion experience held at Pamplin Historical Park in this Virginia town 25 miles south of Richmond.
Civil War log cabin found inside house during demolition A Civil War-era log cabin was discovered inside of a house that was being torn down in Arkansas. Records indicate the cabin may have ...
The cabins nestled in the woods are a permanent fixture on the Wade House property, but their full use is realized once a year during the Civil War Weekend at the Wade House, held from 9 a.m. to 5 ...
Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp' It is often falsely claimed that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year" of the ...
The previous few columns have discussed slavery as an institution and that it was, in my evaluation, the main cause of the Civil War. Yes, there were other causes and I noted that territorial acqui… ...
Your organization owns a house of great importance to Civil War history and is dependent on admissions to maintain it. There were lots of visitors until a few years ago, when high-rises replaced ...
This year marks both the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin ...
New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...
One hundred and sixty years ago, the land now occupied by the public school complex on Fairground Road was part of a Civil War military camp. In May 1861, the 1st Vermont Regiment was organized in ...
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps.