A piece of Winchendon’s history has been restored and returned to its proper place in the community. When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in ...
Visit interesting Civil War sites, sip craft beer at local breweries, and fly in WWII planes in this small Virginia town that ...
In this episode of Depths of History, we explore a historical Civil War battle site in Alabama. The video features our week ...
Two restored cannons that date back to the Civil War were returned to Front Park Thursday for the first time since their removal in 1940. The cast-iron cannons, 11½ feet long and 11,000 pounds each, ...
The antique cannons that provide this auditory extravaganza are no ordinary armaments. Most of them hail from the Civil War era and are (carefully) hauled by truck over to the event from nearby ...
RICHMOND — More than six years in the making, the American Civil War Museum officially opened to the public Saturday, drawing visitors from across the country with a message that the war affected ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Archaeologists have pulled three heavy cast iron Civil War cannons from the waters of a South Carolina river where they were hidden for 150 years. Using a front loader's mechanical ...
The Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon will be fired at an event 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in Smiley Park, between the Lincoln Shrine and Redlands’ A.K. Smiley Public Library.
CHESTER, Va. (AP) -- Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown. As an adult, ...
The Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction cannon, which was dedicated in August 2021, will be fired once again in an event beginning at 10 a.m. Aug. 26 in Redlands’ Smiley Park, between the Lincoln ...
Stanley Hurlee has seen his share of odd sales through the years at his Metairie scrap yard. Yet last week, something didn't seem right when a man pulled up, eager to sell a hefty haul of brass and ...