Antietam Battlefield’s Miller farmhouse gets a facelift
Halfway through a five-year renovation of the historic Miller farmhouse at Antietam National Battlefield, the Park Service preservation teams have been offering a handful of sneak previews of their...
View ArticleGaming board says no to Gettysburg casino
No gambling for historic Civil War town Preservationists claimed victory in Gettysburg this spring when for the second time in five years, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board rejected plans for a...
View ArticleNew Gettysburg Film from Ridley and Tony Scott
Scott brothers produce Gettysburg film for History channel The famed filmmaking Scott brothers—Ridley (Gladiator; Black Hawk Down; American Gangster) and Tony (Unstoppable; Man on Fire; Top Gun)—have...
View ArticleCamp Misery Excavation
Students snag chance to probe ‘Camp Misery’ As if the indignity of losing at Fredericksburg were not enough, 100,000 Union soldiers (and 90,000 of their counterparts from the South) settled in to spend...
View ArticleSegways appear at Fredericksburg NMP
Segways slipping silently across the battlefield might resemble the charge of the very, very light brigade, but the two-wheel, stand-up scooters could be an ideal way for tourists to inspect hallowed...
View ArticleGettysburg is an Endangered Battlefield
A proposed casino near the site of Pickett’s Charge has landed the Gettysburg National Military Park on the Civil War Preservation Trust’s list of the 10 most endangered battlefields in 2010. In its...
View ArticleNew Civil War Exhibit at the National Archives
The National Archives combines 21st-century technology with 19th-century ephemera for a new interactive sesquicentennial exhibition the department calls “the most extensive display ever assembled”...
View ArticleWalmart Withdraws from Wilderness Battlefield
Preservationists win Wilderness battle Rather than face what would likely have been an image-bruising court fight, Walmart has abandoned plans to build a retail supercenter on the doorstep of the...
View ArticleEmmitsburg Road Preservation Campaign
Civil War Preservation Trust announces latest campaign Fundraising has begun for the preservation of a crucial two-acre parcel on the Gettysburg battlefield. The property, originally part of the...
View ArticleRebel bankroller’s grave discovered in England
When American academic Thomas E. Sebrell II recently led several students through London’s historic Kensal Green cemetery—armed with clippers, shears and historical records—the underbrush and thorns...
View ArticleUnknown soldier to receive a place of honor
Ditchdiggers uncover remains of of Civil War soldier in Tennessee.
View ArticleRiverside resort threatens Harpers Ferry’s viewshed
A developer hoping to build a resort near Harpers Ferry, W.Va., faces several regulatory roadblocks. The developer, Rattling Springs Associates of McLean, Va., has submitted plans for a 50-room lodge...
View ArticleTennessee town memorializes Nathan B. Forrest’s horse
In the annals of American history, no war has produced as many famous horses as the Civil War: Traveller, Little Sorrel and Rienzi are among the best known, but there are others. Confederate Lt. Gen....
View ArticleGrave robbers desecrate and loot Fort Craig, N.M., cemetery
Last year, federal archaeologists exhumed 67 bodies from Fort Craig, a Civil War-era fort in New Mexico, after a looting investigation led them to a house where remains of a uniformed “Buffalo...
View ArticleN.C. reenactors work to conserve and display regimental flags
A historic flag captured from the 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg has returned home. A reenactment unit, whose members include a number of descendants of the original unit’s...
View ArticleGettysburg maps sesquicentennial strategy
Civil War battle strategy can be tricky enough itself to convey, but that wasn’t what was giving German journalist Hermann Schmid problems in Gettysburg last fall.
View ArticleAmerica’s Civil War Open Fire- November 2009
Unknown soldier to receive a place of honor The recently discovered remains of a Civil War soldier, including a skull, jawbone, arm bone and single tooth, will be reinterred as part of a new unknown...
View ArticleAmerica’s Civil War Open Fire- September 2009
Doctor wants to find out what was ailing Abe We know what killed Abraham Lincoln, but do we know what else he may have been dying of? A bloodstained strip of pillowcase— the subject of passionate...
View ArticleAmerica’s Civil War Open Fire- July 2009
Graffiti vandals taunt Gettysburg park officials Early in January, vandals left a sobering message on the venerable Peace Light Memorial at Gettysburg: “u can’t get us.” And, as of press time, police...
View ArticleAmerica’s Civil War Open Fire- May 2009
Antietam gives up one of its dead It is common for Civil War battlefields to be described as hallowed ground, but it is rare for that phrase to hit home as strongly as it did recently for John Howard,...
View ArticleAmerica’s Civil War Open Fire- March 2009
Monument to U.S. Colored Troops dedicated, then vandalized Last fall, several descendants of the Connecticut 29th Colored Regiment Infantry gathered to dedicate a long-awaited monument to their...
View ArticleAmerica’s Civil War Open Fire- January 2009
Ox Hill: Honoring 2nd Bull Run’s bloody postscript Not too long ago, if you drove down one crowded stretch of Route 608 in Fairfax County, Virginia, it was easy to miss a ragged plot of land called Ox...
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