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		<title>The Surrender of the Confederate Armies:  April-June 1865</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/02/18/surrender-confederate-armies-april-june-1865/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 9th, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. This event at Appomattox Court House, Virginia is often regarded as the end of the Civil War. Actually, Lee&#8217;s surrender that day was the first in a series of events that took place over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children of Civil War Veterans are Still Alive 147 Years After the War Ended</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/02/13/children-civil-war-veterans-alive-147-years-war-ended/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may seem like the Civil War was a long time ago, but there are still a few people around who have a close tie to those who fought in the conflict. These people are actual sons and daughters of Civil War veterans. Those alive today are the offspring of usually  widowed veterans who married much younger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Union Forces Take Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee and Roanoke Island, North Carolina; Confederates Win at Valverde, New Mexico:  February 1862</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/02/05/union-forces-capture-forts-henry-donelson-tennessee-roanoke-island-north-carolina-confederate-victory-valverde-mexico-february-1862/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[150 Years Ago in the Civil War After several months of relatively little action, the pace of the fighting picked up in February 1862. Although the Army of the Potomac stayed in winter quarters around Washington, Federal forces in other locations took to the field in several significant offensive operations. Surrender of Fort Henry and Fort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former U.S. President John Tyler Became Loyal to the Confederacy</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/01/29/u-s-president-john-tyler-loyal-confederacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article on Yahoo! News relates that two grandsons of John Tyler,  the 10th President of the United States, are still alive. The presidential grandchildren were born in the 1920s. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr., was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Their father, Lyon Gardner Tyler, was in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Capture of Fort Henry, Tennessee February 1862</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/01/19/capture-fort-henry-tennessee-february-1862/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the fall of 1861, Captain Jesse Taylor accepted command of the artillery at Fort Henry, a Confederate garrison on the Tennessee River near the Kentucky&#8211;Tennessee border. The Tennessee flows from eastern Tennessee southwest into northern Alabama before turning north and returning to Tennessee. It empties into the Ohio River at Paducah, Kentucky, and was an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnificent Hetty Cary: Betsy Ross of the South</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/01/12/hetty-cary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more prominent socialites and colorful characters in Richmond society during the Civil War was displaced Marylander Hetty Cary. A descendant of Thomas Jefferson, Cary was born near Baltimore in 1836, and was living in that city when the Civil War began in 1861. Baltimore had a large number of Confederate sympathizers, and after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky; Edwin M. Stanton Named Secretary of War:  January 1862</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2012/01/04/battle-mill-springs-kentucky-edwin-m-stanton-named-secretary-war-january-1862/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[150 Years Ago in the Civil War As the second year of the Civil War began, the main armies on both sides remained inactive for the most part. In Washington, President Abraham Lincoln continued to press for movement by the Federal armies under Major Generals Don Carlos Buel and Henry Halleck in Kentucky and Missouri, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Civil War Commemorative Stamps</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2011/12/29/2012-civil-war-commemorative-stamps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Civil War Sesquicentennial, the U.S. Postal Service is issuing two Civil War commemorative stamps each year from 2011-2105. Each stamp in the series commemorates a significant event that occurred 150 years ago from the year of the stamp&#8217;s issue. In 2011, stamps commemorating Fort Sumter and the First Battle of Bull Run were issued. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William T. Sherman&#8217;s Christmas Gift of Savannah, Georgia</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2011/12/23/william-t-shermans-christmas-gift-savannah-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://ironbrigader.com/2011/12/23/william-t-shermans-christmas-gift-savannah-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major General William T. Sherman&#8217;s March to the Sea was near an end in mid December 1864.  After capturing Fort McAllister on the Ogeechee River below Savannah, Georgia on December 13th, there was just one objective left. That last objective was the capture of the city of Savannah itself. The commander of the Confederate forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George A. Custer Quick Facts</title>
		<link>http://ironbrigader.com/2011/12/17/george-a-custer-quick-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name Meaning George is of Greek origin meaning &#8220;farmer&#8221; Vital Stats Birthday:  December 5th, 1839 Birth Name: George Armstrong Custer Birthplace:  New Rumley, Ohio Date of Death:  June 25th, 1876 Cause:  Killed in action at Battle of Little Bighorn Place of Death: Little Bighorn battlefield, SE Montana Height: 5&#8242; 11&#8243; Nationality: American Ancestry: German and [...]]]></description>
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