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PA Soldiers and Sailors Home recognizes National Medal of Honor Day
The Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home is recognizing National Medal of Honor Day. The volunteer resources coordinator, ...
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Sheldon Prairie Museum’s military collection includes Philo Woods’ Civil War diary
The Sheldon Prairie Museum has many different collections -- in fact, about half the basement is dedicated to military ...
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'The Unkillable Soldier' Who Kept Fighting Despite Losing an Eye and Hand in World War I
At the turn of the 20th century, Adrian Carton de Wiart was struggling academically. While considering whether to continue pursuing a law degree at the University of Oxford, he desperately sought ...
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American Civil War: Maps, Battlefields, and Generals
The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
The sculpture will be mounted on an elevated hill in Franklin County, Virginia. The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country ...
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Smoke and memory: A Civil War painting endures in Minnesota’s Capitol
At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
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Fears of civil war in South Sudan stem from political rivalry between the president and his deputy
Tensions are rising in the oil-rich east African nation of South Sudan after Riek Machar, who serves as one of the country’s vice presidents, was arrested in the capital.
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From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and beyond, one SE Minnesota family served America
For the first time in 50 years, three brothers — John J. Casseday, George Casseday and Samuel Casseday — got together. All three, along with a fourth brother (and, by the way, their father) fought in ...