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Updated 10/28/2010
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 Museum Of The Confederacy Breaks Ground For An Appomattox Museum
By Scott C. Boyd
APPOMATTOX, Va. – “This is the biggest and most important project in the entire nation for the Sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and Appomattox is the right place to put it,” announced S. Waite Rawls III
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 Local Effort Begins To Enlarge Missionary Ridge Reservations
By Gregory L. Wade
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — One hundred and forty-seven years after the Battle of Missionary Ridge to free Chattanooga from an infamous Confederate siege, citizens and historians are working to enhance and expand the interpretative sites of this often overlooked battlefield.
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Gettysburg Casino Debate Continues; Gaming Control Board Sets Hearings
By Kathryn Jorgensen
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will hold hearings Nov. 16 and 17 in Harrisburg on the four applications for the state’s last Category 3 license to operate a casino at a resort hotel.
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Wal-mart Site Had Role In 2 Battles McPherson To Say As Court Witness
By Scott C. Boyd
ORANGE, Va. — Civil War historian James M. McPherson is one of the plaintiffs’ four expert witnesses for the trial slated to begin Jan. 25 in the lawsuit to prevent construction of a Wal-mart Supercenter at the entrance to the Wilderness Battlefield, |
Film Premiere Will Honor Anna Ella Carroll Nov. 20
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and Friends of Anna Ella Carroll will host the world premiere film screening of “The Lost River,” about the Maryland’s Anna Ella Carroll on Saturday, Nov. 20, at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay at 7 p.m.
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Harrisburg Will Celebrate 1865 USCT Grand Review
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Six months after the two-day Washington Grand Review of victorious Federal troops celebrated the end of the Civil War, black residents of Harrisburg organized a Grand Review for the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) who were excluded from the parade.
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CWPT Needs Funds For Spring Hill
By Gregory L. Wade
SPRING HILL, Tenn. — Eighty-four acres at Spring Hill Battlefield, site of one of the most controversial episodes of the Civil War, are close to being protected by the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), with help from a $1.9 million federal grant.
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