The sound of war was heard and felt across the battlefield as hundreds honored the nearly 6,000 men who shed their blood at Pea Ridge during the Civil War.
Men and women transformed into Union and Confederate soldiers to re-enact the 151-year-old battle Saturday (March 23).
“It should always be remembered,” said Denis Cousley, who traveled from Northern Ireland to watch the re-enactment. “It should always be re-enacted forever long.”
ABOUT 15 years ago, Ron Hyde was thumbing through a Civil War magazine when he came across an advertisement for a museum called Drum Barracks.
“The ad said it was located in Wilmington, Calif.,” said Mr. Hyde, who lives in Norco, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. “I thought, ‘That’s got to be a typo. It must be in Delaware or North Carolina.’ ”
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The funding, preparation and installation of five new Civil War Trail markers reflect the long-standing community spirit of Falls Church, civic activist Barbara Cram said this week. The Friends of Cherry Hill, the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, the Galloway United Methodist Church, the Falls Church Anglican, and the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation along with the Falls Church Economic Development
Years before U.S. soldiers shipped off to war to be fed by iron rations, C-rations, MCIs and MREs, infantrymen fighting in the Civil War entered battle carrying items like salt pork, cornmeal and dried peas.
Soldiers on both sides of the front were unaccustomed to cooking, having been fed by wives, sisters and slaves, forcing at least one Union general to send culinary experts out into the war zone to teach divisions how to cook in the fields.
Way down at the bottom of this AP story about the ongoing cost of all our wars is this interesting tidbit, “The Civil War payments are going to two children of veterans — one in North Carolina and one in Tennessee — each for $876 per year.”
I can’t decide if it’s more shocking that there are still kids of Civil War veterans who are alive or that our country doesn’t die of shame only giving them $876 a year.
The forefront of Civil War medicine was located right in Penn’s backyard.
When it opened in 1862 — while the University was still at 9th and Chestnut streets — Satterlee Hospital had a total of 3,124 beds and open areas that could be tented outside to hold another 900 patients. The hospital stretched from approximately 42nd and Baltimore streets to 45th and Pine streets, which includes a portion of what is now Clark Park.
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A re-enactment of the Skirmish at Hurricane Bridge, fought 150 years ago this month at the Putnam County town of Hurricane, will be among the activities taking place during Putnam County’s Civil War Weekend, which starts Thursday in Valley Park.
The clash involving about 400 Confederate soldiers under the command of Brig. Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins and 150 Union troops led by Capt. James W. Johnson of the 13th West Virginia Infantry took place March 28, 1863.
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A discussion roundtable at Western Kentucky University is focusing on the Civil War and how it’s relevant today, two organizers said.
The Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, one of the first bloody battles of the Civil War, could have occurred in Bowling Green had the Confederates stayed before the Union Army got close, local Civil War researcher and devotee Tom Carr said. As it was, the Confederates pulled out after burning portions of Bowling Green, then the Union Army shelled the town because it didn’t know the rebels had left.
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