Fried alligator and root beer: Thousands arrive for Battle of Aiken events
Plans are for the weekend of Feb. 21-23 to include a massive spike in traffic on Powell Pond Road, with the annual Battle of ...
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Mary Elizabeth Bowser The Black Spy Who Infiltrated the Home of a Confederate Leader
Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) notes that the theme sets out to highlight and celebrate the ...
These national park trails were created by America’s first Black soldiers
Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...
'Lost' Union troops killed at Battle of Olustee are in S.C. cemetery, says local writer
Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...
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Historic Last Civil War Funeral - Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram (Part I)
This video covers the historic last Civil War funeral of Confederate Lt. Andrew Jackson Buttram, whose remains were recovered ...
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Union general still vilified for insulting New Orleans women, but he also defended Black rights
The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.