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War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...
New Albany Grays Civil War flag comes home for display. Lynn West; May 15, 2015 May 15, 2015 Updated May 5, 2017; Facebook; ... Health Matters-North Mississippi Health Services.
More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Nearly 50 years ago, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller threw the full weight of New York's government behind commemorating the 100th anniversary of the nation's bloodiest conflict, the ...
Tupelo, Mississippi holds more than just stories - it holds buried history. Join the History Seekers as we use top-tier detectors to locate real Civil War relics hidden underground for over 150 years.
Civil War-Era Relics Found in Drought-Hit Mississippi River: 'Almost Gave Me a Heart Attack,' Collector Says Intense drought conditions are causing water levels of the 2,300-mile-long Mississippi ...
Christie campaign aides say Ms. Haley’s suggestion that the Civil War was fought over “the ... which he argues Ms. Haley changes to sound more hard-line in Iowa and less so in New Hampshire. (Ms.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The low water level in the Mississippi River is allowing modern-day treasure hunters to uncover Civil War relics along the river bank. Over the weekend, Riley Bryant found so… ...
More than 17,000 of them fought for the Union in the Civil War, including more than 5,500 Black soldiers, designated by the U.S. War Department in 1863 as United States Colored Troops.
Union military forces used the island throughout the remainder of the Civil War. By spring of 1862, the island harbored up to 18,000 U.S. troops, and was used in the Union's capture of New Orleans.
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school ...