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South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...
A long-lost Confederate flag, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg and among the rarest Civil War artifacts, sold for $468,000 at an Ohio auction house last month.
Florida Republicans are embroiled in a civil war — Gov. Ron DeSantis has excoriated state House leadership, accusing them of revolting against voters who sent them to the legislative chamber and ...
Nautical twilight, or the period when the horizon may be distinguishable, is around 530 a.m. Civil twilight, or the period where the sun is still below the horizon, but is clearly lighting the sky ...
It was July 18, 1863, at the heart of the Civil War. Charging with the 54th was Sgt. William Carney, who saw the colors fall. He picked up the flag and carried it forward, reaching the wall of the ...
But this small square of tattered, tawny fabric is believed to be a piece of the flag Union troops hoisted above Fort Sumter to announce their surrender — and the start of the Civil War.
A significant piece of local and American history - one no one knew existed for over 200 years - will soon return home to Spartanburg County. Read more: <a href ...
MANSFIELD — The 47th annual Ohio Civil War And WWI & II Show will be held at the Richland County Fairgrounds May 3-4. Show times are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 3, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, ...
Years ago the county was able to locate and return the Spartanburg Freedom Flag, which had been sewn by the wife of a Black pastor at the end of the Civil War, when news of the emancipation of ...
Very few people can say they’ve lived through two pandemics and the Irish Civil War, but Sarah Coyle can. Believed to be Ireland’s oldest person, Ms Coyle is due to celebrate her 109th ...
A trademark battle between Zap Africa, a rising crypto exchange, and fintech giant Paystack has opened a new front in Nigeria’s increasingly litigious tech space, one that has as much to do with ...
Yet, as legal historian Mary Ziegler notes in her new book Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction, the movement’s end goal has always been much more sweeping: establishing personhood ...