News

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 is ...
The sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer’s Auctions on Thursday in Columbus. The wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863 ...
Fleischer had boxed up the memoir and other items, including Sherman’s personal sword and military trunk ... Missouri. After the Civil War broke out, Sherman was commissioned as an officer ...
Other artifacts that were the subject of intense online bidding include Sherman’s annotated copy of Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs, his childhood algebra book and a family Bible. By Christine ...
As a part of its December Premier event, Rock Island Auction Company is selling off a plethora of antique swords and war memorabilia. Included in the prominent lots are two Civil War–era blades ...
Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup ... Historical finds include bullets, cannonballs and even swords, CBS affiliate WLTX reports. Also discovered was a wheel experts ...
It's a Civil War presentation sword with a clamshell guard, meaning it wasn't used in combat, and was made after the conflict. These swords were given as gifts to soldiers thanking them for their ...
COLUMBUS — 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 ...