There is going to be one huge commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Wilderness May 2 to 4. Multiple entities, including Spotsylvania County, Va., the National Park Service and local heritage organizations, have each planned to participate.…
Daily Archives: May 2, 2014
Confederate submarine getting a chemical bath
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Scientists near the city where the Civil War began prepared Thursday to soak an encrusted Confederate submarine in a chemical bath to reveal its hull for the first time in 150 years Read Entire Article
Park’s new exhibits highlight Civil War’s people
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If you’ve been to the National Park Service’s Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center in the past, what you’ll see there now is like night and day compared to its old self. Read Entire Article
Re-dedication ceremony of Civil War Monument
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Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will rededicate the Cherokee Civil War monument, located in Oak Hill Cemetery, at 1 p.m. this Sunday, May 4th. Read Entire Article
Unusual Civil War anniversary event re-creates Carolinian’s death
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Amid the dozens of grand battles being re-enacted for the Civil War’s 150th anniversary is an unusual affair this weekend re-creating the death of a single North Carolinian Read Entire Article
Today’s Bio - Robert Cunning Schenck
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Schenck was born 4 October 1809 in Franklin, Ohio, an Ohio River village said to have been founded by his father.
This Day in the War - May 2
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Thursday May 2 1861 ELMER ELLSWORTH EXECUTES ENTRANCE Despite yesterday’s vote by the Maryland House of Delegates to remain in the Union, the safety of Washington, D.C. was by no means assured.