Many families in York County, Pennsylvania have old stories and legends from the confederate invasion during the Civil War as part of their history. But just how true are they? Author Scott Mingus has heard many of these tales and anecdotes about legendary confederate figures in York family lore over the years and has also
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Two paintings now on display at the Gettysburg National Military Park offer a vivid depiction of two unique perspectives of the Civil War. “The Armed Slave” depicts a slave reading a book with a cigar in hand and a bayonet-equipped musket close by, ready to spring to action in John Brown’s failed slave uprising of
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In 1864, Union and Confederate soldiers fought for their lives on the land of southwest Arkansas. More than 150 years later, that ground is being saved. In 2016, the Nevada County Depot and Museum, a nonprofit in Prescott, Arkansas, paid close to $1 million to buy about 448 acres of the battlefield along the Little
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The National Museum of Civil War Medicine has been dropped from a Washington D.C. visitors guide because of its logo that includes the confederate battle flag. The museum stands by the logo, which depicts the union and confederate flags joined together by a caduceus symbol. But in the current racial and political climate where even
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Civil War Adventure Camp is a 16-hour overnight camp re-enactment experience. While this is a re-enactment of The Civil War, slavery is not mentioned and The Confederate flag is never flown. The main focus of the camp is military strategy and surviving the brutal serving conditions of serving during the 19th-century. Civil War Adventure Camp
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Blogger and historian Kevin Levin has added six new books to his Civil War Memory library. The new additions cover a wide variety of topics, including black Civil War regiments, escaped-slave refugee camps, infantry tactics, the state of race, law and public debt in Virginia, and biography. One entry, Joe Gould’s Teeth, is not exclusively
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History came full circle when two men descended from opposing Civil War soldiers met completely by chance at the Battle of Richmond Visitors Center in Richmond, Kentucky. Larry Peterson, a descendant of Confederate Colonel Alfred Jefferson Vaughan Jr., ran into John Landon, a descendant of the Ritchie family, whose members served in the Union army.
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Two men in Toledo, Ohio are charged by federal prosecutors for committing a hate crime in the beating of a black man. The victim called one of the men a “cracker” in response to a confederate flag sticker on the man’s vehicle. Court records indicate the man has multiple tattoos and Facebook content indicating racist
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The Roswell Police department in Georgia fired a long time officer due to the fact that she parked next to the flag in her patrol car. A pastor reported the flag and the officer to the Roswell police department and she was fired quickly after the investigation launched. She told the department that she saw
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Fort Defiance in Clarksville, Tennessee, hosted a Civil War Recruitment Day in 2016, a family event that let visitors learn about the war and even step into the role of a new recruit. What makes the event special is the setting: it takes place on the grounds of a real Civil War fort, which gives
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