Family genealogy leads Greensburg man to ancestor's Civil War battle exploits
John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...
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Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War.
For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...
Grassley: Left for ashes, Lincoln’s Law smells like a rose in 21st century
Eight score and two years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the False Claims Act into federal law. The anti-fraud tool, ...
East Idaho News on MSN4d
Historian says Lincoln won Civil War with the ‘idea of Idaho,’ and early governor might have prevented assassination
Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution6d
New Civil War research more fully details deaths in South, Georgia
In September of 1863, when it fought in the Battle of Chickamauga ... headstones helps visitors understand the scope of the Civil War’s deadly toll, said Richard Harker, the Historic Oakland ...
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Seminar on the Mississippi: New Orleans to Memphis
Cruise the legendary Mississippi River from Memphis to New Orleans aboard a classic-style paddle-wheeler. Enjoy panel ...
Sun Journal5dOpinion
How an Auburn man started a pro-North newspaper in London during the Civil War
John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...
The Island Packet on MSN2d
Final expansion of the 163-year-old Beaufort cemetery will give vets a resting place
Space must be maximized at the 163-year graveyard and concrete crypts that can hold two caskets are part of an expansion to ...
The Lowell Sun10h
The Underground Railroad’s path through Lowell and St. Anne’s Episcopal Church
The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...
The Nation on MSN3d
Letters From the April 2025 Issue
Ad Policy This article appears in the April 2025 issue. Come Gather ’Round, People. Thank you for Daniel Bessner’s thoughtful ...
Portland Press Herald5d
Opinion: Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on
At Gettysburg in July 1863, Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain determined that ... articles and film accounts of the Civil War ...
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Post Register2dOpinion
Opinion: Looking at President Lincoln's leadership and legacy
Last week, we celebrated Idaho Day — the day President Abraham Lincoln declared Idaho a territory of the United States on March 4, 1863. This comes after celebrating Lincoln’s birthday ...