LAKE HURON — The Civil War was only seven months old on Nov. 9, 1861, when the sidewheel steamer Keystone State passed into oblivion.
Nobody even knew the ship had sunk until more than a week later, when wreckage was spotted off Port Austin and the Keystone State’s wheelhouse washed ashore.
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Thanksgiving night, three people went searching for ghosts in a Civil War-era building in Gettysburg they suspect is haunted.
But when the trio shined their flashlights in the building, a passing police officer noticed, went inside, and the ghost hunters got busted for burglary instead.
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The state parks system is on the hot seat and a House leader is calling for action over a proposed monument to Union soldiers at the site of the biggest Civil War battle fought in Florida.
The bid to add a Union monument to the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park near Lake City has drawn a furious response, with about 100 people attending a Monday night public hearing at the Columbia County School District Auditorium. Representatives of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees the state parks, moderated the hearing.
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He was a big man yesterday. But boy, you ought to see him now.
Isaac Peace Rodman was co-owner of a textile mill, a community leader and state senator. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, he resurrected the town militia, in part by recruiting workers from his mill, and led it into battle.
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At a time when there were only 150,000 Jews in the United States, 10,000 Jewish men fought in the Civil War.
That 6,000 took up arms for the Union Army and 4,000 for the Confederacy surprises some, said Civil War historian Bruce Form during a Nov. 18 program at Highland Park Conservative Temple-Congregation Anshe Emeth.
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One hundred fifty years ago this week, the U.S Army at Fort Monroe demolished one of Hampton Roads’ largest and best known landmarks.
Opened at Old Point Comfort in 1822 to accommodate engineers and construction workers laboring on the giant stone fort, the Hygeia Hotel had grown from a handful of rooms to a sprawling waterfront resort that had entertained several presidents and attracted summer visitors by the thousands.
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