Civil War Index

10/03/2015

FLORENCE, S.C. -- Three Civil War cannons were raised from the bottom of the Great P*e Dee River in South Carolina on Tuesday morning, according to The State. Two were Confederate Brooke Rifle cann...

11/30/2012

http://www.timesleader.com/stories/Smithsonian-gathers-best-art-of-Civil-War-era,234484

Associated Press (AP) Paintings and photographs depicting the raw reality of the Civil War marked a major change in American art that tossed out romantic notions of war. … - timesleader.com

11/30/2012

http://www.newstribune.com/news/2012/nov/28/library-congress-shows-diaries-civil-war/

Letters and diaries from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation 150 years ago and some of the festering debates that survive today.

11/30/2012

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/27/a-civil-war-professor-reviews-lincoln.html

Allen Guelzo is the director of the Civil War studies department at Gettysburg College

11/29/2012

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/civil-war/2012/nov/29/civil-war-two-farm-girls-served-confederate-cavalr/

Passing themselves off as teenage boys, the cousins were thrown into prison once they were found out.

11/29/2012

http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=734982

CARTHAGE, Mo. -- Local history buffs work to restore land that was scene to a civil war battle.

11/29/2012

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20121129/WILLIAMSON01/311290008/Civil-War-Trust-down-339-000?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7C%7Cs

Civil War Trust is asking its 55,000 members for donations to raise $339,000 needed to complete purchase of three pieces of land where the Battle of Franklin was fought.

11/29/2012

http://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/news/article/oatlands_begins_journey_of_living_legacy_project999/

Just more than 149 years to the day after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln recited the Gettysburg Address, The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership’s Living Legacy Project kicked off their tree planting initiative Nov. 20 at Oatlands Plantation, which is a National Trust Historic site.