The 12th annual Civil War Experience starts Friday at Gibson Ranch Road and is expected to give families a living history day.
Organizers said more than 10,000 people are slated to come out through Sunday.
Today, about 2,000 school children who have been learning about the Civil War will get to see first-hand what soldiers and nurses went through 150 years ago.
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Civil War-era cannons will be restored in the coming months as an Arlington preservationist works to remove corrosion and paint from the four guardians of an obelisk on the Natick Common.
Dario Fiorentini bid $9,400 to complete the project. Fiorentini, who worked on restoring the obelisk, submitted the lowest of three bids. The highest bid was nearly $11,000, Pprocurement officer Peter Roche said.
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Robert E. Lee. Jeff Davis. Ulysses S. Grant.
Ladies in crinoline skirts, artillerists with Stribling’s Battery, cavalrymen, U.S. Colored Troops, the 2nd South Carolina String Band, tintype photographer Robert Szabo, sharpshooter “Kansas” Tom Johnson, blacksmith Edgar Harrison and war correspondent Theodore Davis.
Sept. 27, 2012, will mark the 150th anniversary of a Civil War battle that took place in Augusta.
Plans are currently being made to commemorate that battle, and the celebration will be held on Sept. 27-30.
According to Bill Baker, one of the members of a committee planning the event, they approached Augusta City Council last year in order to get permission to hold the commemoration.
More than 1,000 Civil War re-enactors are packing their hardtack and wool uniforms for the 148th anniversary of the Battle of New Market.
The re-enactors will gather this weekend on Virginia Military Institute’s New Market Battlefield. VMI says it is the oldest battle re-enactment in the nation and one of the few held on the original site.
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A Civil War documentary produced in our area is up for several Emmy Awards. Hunter’s Raid is about the battle of Lynchburg in 1864.
Historic Sandusky Foundation put together the piece over a five year period.
It first aired on several PBS stations back in May 2010. Now, the work is up for four regional Emmys next month in Washington D.C.
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In the end, bringing in revenue trumped preserving history.
The Jonesboro City Council cleared the way this week for a funeral home to be built on about 11 acres on Ga. 54 just off Tara Boulevard after a contentious fight to preserve what is believed to be the last piece of unspoiled Civil War battleground in the county.
During the month of June, Gettysburg National Military Park’s monument preservation staff will perform preservation maintenance on three of the tallest monuments on the civil war battlefield. Work on the New York State Memorial, the Vermont State Memorial, and the Pennsylvania State Memorial will require a 150 foot lift.
The Gettysburg Foundation is covering the cost of renting an aerial platform to accomplish the work, as part of its ongoing support of National Park Service education and preservation projects at Gettysburg.
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