GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The sun rose on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, 2018, to reveal a line of cars parked behind the Union Army’s tents. It was an annoying historical anachronism for the ...
Feb. 15—AIKEN — Military talent, tactics and tools from the days of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass and Wade Hampton III were in the spotlight Feb. 14 at Aiken County Historical Museum, with ...
Many of today’s re-enactors were born as the last Civil War veterans were dying, and grew up amid the celebrations and re-enactments of the centennial that lasted from 1961 to 1965. But the heyday of ...
As federal cannons blasted on Sunday afternoon, actors portraying Confederate soldiers fired off their muskets and fell to mock deaths in a semi-wooded field at Tannehill Ironworks Historical State ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- An opening volley of musket fire ushered in the start of the milestone commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg on Friday, 150 years after the Union Army turned away a ...
The sound of musket fire filled the air and echoed through the woods as a Civil War battle re-enactment began at the Historic Latta Plantation on June 6. Set in June of 1865, the battle pitted Union ...
Like a triumphant army of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, dozens of shorts-clad police officers raced down Madison Street and overwhelmed the Hillsborough Courthouse plaza Monday at the end of a 2.8-mile run ...
The smell of campfires and gunpowder were in the air at Burton Century Village Museum and Historical Education Center’s Civil War re-enactment. The encampment took place on May 24 at 14653 E. Park St.
The first volume of what’s planned to be a 13-part comic book series called Papa Cherry is set in Richmond with a supernatural take on the city’s Civil War history and music scene. The series creator, ...