Gunpowder and grit: Preparations continue for Battle of Aiken events
The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...
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Factors that led to the failure of the Confederacy
The January 2025 meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Gettysburg featured Dr. Christian B. Keller speaking to his book, “Southern Strategies: Why The Confederacy Failed,” published in 2021 ...
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How the final shots of the Civil War came to be fired off the shores of Alaska
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...
5 Medical Innovations from the Civil War
Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.
Enslaved people took refuge at pioneering hotel on NC Outer Banks. But perils awaited
A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people during the Civil War. But perils still awaited those who arrived. In the 1860s, African Americans escaped to one of the state’s ...