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The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina ...
The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...
However, new weapons like the pike and longbow changed the battlefield. At Morgarten (1315), Swiss foot soldiers defeated ...
The Scranton chapter of UNICO National donated $350 to the GAR Memorial Association’s fundraiser to return the Civil War sword of a North Scranton (then the town of Providence) native and Civil ...
April 9, our great Union of states will officially be celebrating the 160th Anniversary of the official End of the Civil War ...
Magnet fishers have discovered a 350-year-old cannonball thought to have been used during the English Civil War. The group ...
One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment ... Union and Confederate wounded. In the larger battles of the war the casualties were staggering: Antietam 22,717 ...
A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...
Photojournalism was born during the Civil War. Also born during the Civil War was the woman who would become America’s first female photojournalist.
At the young age of 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two ...