On April 19, 1861, just as the drums of war had begun to sound in Washington, Thaddeus Lowe launched his small, businesslike balloon the Enterprise from a vacant lot in the heart of Cincinnati. Lowe’s ambitious plan was to fly…
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Restoration of Civil War fort has Paola connection
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Here is a mystery that is really not a mystery, but instead a little known local fact regarding the Civil War. When the Civil War broke out, Fort Scott was a dilapidated military outpost along the old military road. In…
Civil War painting going up for auction in NYC
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A painting by Sanford Robinson Gifford made while he served in the Union Armycould bring as much as $5 million at auction. “Sunday Morning in the Camp of the Seventh Regiment near Washington, D.C., in May 1861″ could set a…
Trees to be planted for Civil War dead will be technologically linked to soldiers’ history
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William Harris is only 10 years old, but on Tuesday he helped commemorate more than half a million soldiers who died during the American Civil War. William and a swarm of other school children were on part of the Pickett’s…