Horace Safford Brown’s monitor, the USS Nahant, saw action for the first time on March 3, 1863. Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont ordered the South Atlantic Fleet’s newest ironclads to test their guns ...
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The National Civil War Museum is in the midst of what it hopes will be a fruitful, but costly, undertaking. An estimated $1.25 million is set to go into preserving and ...
Second Lt. Walter Thorn, who served with Company G of the 116th U.S. Colored Troops, recently was remembered at Henricus Historical Park. The Civil War Sesquicentennial event, held on Jan. 19, aimed ...
There was not much in the way of entertainment in Allentown in the late 1870s. But young men of the town knew if they wanted to hear an interesting tale of the sea, they could always go down to the ...