150 Years Ago in the Civil War With the arrival of Spring, the actions and movements of the opposing forces increased, both on land and afloat. The Union Navy was in action at Charleston, South Carolina in the first significant fighting of April . On the 7th of the month, a fleet of nine ironclads [...]
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The U.S. Navy announced on February 12th, 2013 that the remains of two sailors found in the turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on March 8th. The turret was recovered from the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast in 2002 and is at the USS [...]
150 Years Ago in the Civil War After a very active December and January, the armies took time out in February 1863 to reorganize and rest before resuming active campaigning in the spring. Land action was limited to relatively minor skirmishing and fighting between small units of soldiers and cavalry from Virginia to Indian Territory, [...]
