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Ghost Bridge to come down but not without a fight.
The news of the massive demolition of the historic bridges has raised several eyebrows and are leading to questions as to how to better protect historic bridges from neglect and pointless demolition...
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Remembering the dead
By the time the Civil War ended in 1865, the United States had sustained severe casualties, with the total number of dead soldiers estimated at 620,000. It has been our deadliest war, pitting family ...
Posted on 5/27/11 at 12:00 AM
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2 Civil War sailors from USS Monitor buried in Va.

More than 150 years after the USS Monitor sank off North Carolina during the Civil War, two unknown crewmen found in the ironclad's turret when it was raised a decade ago were buried Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.

March 09, 2013

Smithsonian gathers best art of Civil War era

WASHINGTON (AP) — Paintings and photographs depicting the raw reality of the Civil War marked a major change in American art that tossed out romantic notions of war.

By Brett Zongker, Associated Press , November 23, 2012

Antietam battle so big, there are 2 re-enactments

SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) — The Civil War Battle of Antietam was so big, they're re-enacting it twice. And nearly 8,000 re-enactors had to make a choice: strictly regimented realism or bombastic spectacle?

By David Dishneau, Associated Press , September 13, 2012

3-day Kan. event to honor black Civil War soldiers

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A group that publicizes Kansas history is planning a three-day celebration in Topeka next month to mark the 150th anniversary of the formation of the first unit of black soldiers to go into battle during the Civil War.

By Associated Press , July 09, 2012

NY museum's replica Civil War balloon lifts off

MUMFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Terry Lowe drove 1,000 miles to get a taste of what his Civil War balloonist ancestor experienced while observing troop movements on the battlefields of Virginia — minus the pot-shots from Confederate guns, of course.

By Associated Press , July 04, 2012

Visitation hits record level where Civil War began

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — One of America's most famous historic sites has again made history as a record 328,000 visitors took the tour boat last year to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor to see where the Civil War began.

By Bruce Smith, Associated Press , April 07, 2012

Civil War museums changing as view on war changes

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Inside Louisiana's Civil War Museum, battle flags line the walls. Uniforms, swords and long-barreled guns fill museum cases beside homespun knapsacks, dented canteens and tiny framed pictures of wives that soldiers carried into battle.

By Mary Foster, Associated Press , January 09, 2012

Wool-clad Civil War re-enactors brace for heat

Wool-clad Civil War re-enactors brace for heat MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — For all the attention to authenticity, organizers for a major re-enactment marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run can't replicate one important detail: the weather.

By MATTHEW BARAKAT,Associated Press , July 22, 2011

In North, Civil War sites, events long 'forgotten'

The gravesite of a Union Army major general sits largely forgotten in a small cemetery along the Massachusetts Turnpike.

April 18, 2011

Civil War 150th: Fort Sumter re-enactors wind down

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) — Re-enactors played “Yankee Doodle” as they took away the Union flag and recreated Fort Sumter's surrender to Confederate attackers 150 years ago Thursday, winding down a somber commemoration of America's plunge into the Civil War

By By Bruce Smith, The Associated Press , April 14, 2011

Civil War 150th anniversary marked this week

The opening salvo of the American Civil War will be recreated in the harbor of Charleston, S.C., as part of events marking this week's 150th anniversary of the start of the conflict.

April 11, 2011

Civil War message opened, decoded: No help coming

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened, revealing a coded message to the desperate Confederate commander in Vicksburg on the day the Mississippi city fell to Union forces 147 years ago.

December 25, 2010

It’s not hate, it’s a hateful history

Brag Bowling and I have a lot in common. We both care a lot about history. We just happen to come down on opposite sides of the Civil War. Sort of. Bowling is the commander of the Virginia Division of The Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization dedicated to the proposition that the South is getting a raw deal in a lot of history books and in the public’s memory about the war.

By Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune , April 13, 2010

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Don’t repeat this history

Looking out from the harbor here, it’s easy to imagine a mortar lighting up the night sky as it hurtled toward Fort Sumter and signaled the start of the Civil War. It’s also easy, standing inside the walls of the island garrison, to view today’s nullification battle over health care less as a frivolous political game and more as a serious threat to the Constitution.

By Steve and Cokie Roberts , April 10, 2010

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Angolan troops join in fighting rebels

Reports that Angolan troops joined Congolese soldiers battling rebels near the city of Goma raised new fears the conflict could spread in the region, but the U.N. chief holding a peace conference in nearby Nairobi denied the reports.

November 08, 2008

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