New York’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration
The state of New York furnished almost 449,000 men for the Union Army and Navy in the Civil War, the most of any state. According to Frederick Dyer’s Compendium of the War of the...
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Pennsylvania’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration
Pennsylvania contributed extensively to the Union cause in the Civil War. Over 425.000 Pennsylvanians served in the Union Army and Navy, in well over 200 regiments of infantry, cavalry and artillery. Although a few...
Lincoln Document in National Archives Altered; Wal-Mart Cancels Store Near Wilderness Battlefield: Civil War in the News January 2011
Two items related to the Civil War were in the news in late January 2011. Here’s a brief summary of these events The National Archives in Washington D.C. announced January 24th that historian Thomas...
Post Office Will Issue Civil War Commemorative Stamps
Not to be outdone by the U.S. Mint and its offering of Civil War commemorative quarters, the U.S. Postal Service will issue two Civil War commemorative stamps per year from 2011 through 2015. The...
U.S. Mint to Release Gettysburg and Vicksburg Quarters in 2011
As part of the America the Beautiful Quarters® Program, the United States Mint will release quarters honoring Gettysburg National Military Park and Vicksburg National Military Park in 2011. The Gettysburg Quarter will be released ...
Booth DNA Testing, Decoded Message From Vicksburg, and Secession Ball in Charleston
Civil War in the News December 2010 Three events attracted the attention of the media as the year drew to a close. Booth Descendants Approve Exhumation of Edwin Booth for DNA Testing After assassinating...
North Carolina’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration
North Carolina was the last state to secede from the Union, doing so on May 20th 1861. The state contributed about 125,000 soldiers to the Confederacy, and of these, 19,673 were killed in battle...
Indiana’s Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration
The state of Indiana furnished over 210,000 men for the Union Army and Navy in the Civil War, and over 24,400 of these men died in the war. One of the more famous Indiana...