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The Westmoreland Historical Society invites the public to step back in time during its Civil War Encampment and Reenactment ...
But for reasons unknown, up to 7 feet of riverbed has been scoured away, excavating parts of the 130-foot-long ship not seen ...
On Independence Weekend, we honored America’s courageous and patriotic men and women. Among them are names we might choose to ...
Local Civil War history is told partially through the relics, like these at the Winery at Bull Run, Photo by Mike Salmon.
That American Revolution/Civil War link is particularly true in York County, which sits on the Mason-Dixon Line, close to military movements, supply lines and bloody battlefields.
Syria confirms closure of civil war-era desert camp, displaced return home The Rukban displacement camp, which opened and was cut off in the height of the civil war in 2014, housed thousands of ...
A Civil War veteran from RI was buried in an unmarked grave. Now he's getting his due. Civil War Veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. was buried without a gravestone at North Burial Ground in ...
In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the county, John E. Weigel.
Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial Day weekend.
or the start of Memorial Day weekend, the descendants of union officers from the Civil War and more came down to the Topeka Cemetery to commemorate their ancestors.
Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas in the Civil War.