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While touring historic Fort Sumter with the National Park Service, we spotted a Civil War artillery projectile still embedded in the brick wall—right where it struck over 160 years ago.
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Roving historical plaque dedicated to the “The ‘Battle’ of Adams Hill” that occurred May 9, 1861, during which only one gun ...
to commemorate the end of the American Civil War, in which 150,000 Union soldiers marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, in full regalia. President Andrew Johnson and General Ulysses S.
In April 1861, cannons opened fire on Fort Sumter—and the American Civil War began. This is the tense standoff that turned into the first battle of a nation divided. Poland firmly responds to US ...
“We portray the regiment as it was during the American Civil War.” Fort Ward is the best preserved of the Union forts in the extensive system known as the Defenses of Washington. The Museum ...
The 6-year-old son of War Front was much closer to the pace than usual under Junior Alvarado, as the leaders set strolling fractions of :26.07, :50.82, 1:15.76, and 1:41.64 before Fort Washington ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a Washington, DC restaurant owned by CBS News star Norah O’Donnell’s husband as part of a crackdown on illegal migrants. Chef Geoff’s ...
War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...
Fiscal hawks are lashing out over what they say are the lack of Medicaid reforms in President Trump’s legislative package, which could thwart the House GOP’s goal of passing the legislation ...