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Recommended The Documentaries In October of 1864, 2,500 Union cavalry routed 7,500 Confederates in Kansas and beat them decisively. If you knew that fact before reading it, then Secrets of the Civil War is probably the DVD collection for you. This four-disc collection is from the History Channel and consists of nine documentaries that have already aired on TV. It is an excellent collection,...
Civil War Civilian Of all the families in Raymond, Mississippi, during the Civil War , one of the most affected was that of Augustine and Elizabeth Dabney . Augustine Dabney was a probate judge and worked hard to support his family of ten children. His wife and daughters helped to nurse the wounded soldiers following the Battle of Raymond , which took place on May 12, 1863. The...
My nephew was really surprised that when he got back from Iraq in the summer, that he had spent a year in the middle of a civil war. He was kinda wondering how being able to go around Baghdad unarmed was being "in the middle of a civil war". Compared to his previous tour, Baghdad was prolly safer than most large cities in the United States. His last few months there he was a liaison to...
"ORANGE, Va. - A group is fighting to stop a Wal-Mart from being built near the Civil War-era Wilderness Battlefield in Orange, Va."-- Group Fights Wal-Mart to Preserve Historic Civil War Battlefield|NewsChannel 8
Is it? A group of Israelis determined to live out their lives as a Historical Recreation Society defy the state and the security services. The state struggles but can't put it down. This is the beginnings of a long period of conflict, this time between Jews. If Hamas was smart they would stop shooting and watch us fall apart all by ourselves.
Back in September , we introduced you to Logitech's newest diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks. Rich expressed confusion as to why we actually need a "for Notebooks" model, and after doing a full length review , I must agree. There's absolutely nothing about the diNovo for Notebooks that makes it strictly ...
Back in September, we introduced you to Logitech’s newest diNovo Keyboard for Notebooks. CNET’s Rich Brown expressed confusion as to why we actually need a “for Notebooks” model, and after doing a full-length review, I must agree. There’s absolutely nothing about the diNovo for Notebooks that makes …
Spain is going to grant citizenship to 1.5 million grandchildren of civil war exiles. The news came as a surprise. Although I myself am an Argentine immigrant, am in favor of immigration, supported the PSOE in their amnesty and am sure that things would be going much worse for Spain had it not welcomed [...]
Here’s a 4-minute highlight video of the 2008 Civil War football game between my beloved Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers. It was one of the most satisfying football games I’ve ever watched as a diehard Duck fan. Highlights in the video include “More Than A Feeling” by Boston as the soundtrack, [...]
Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Food and Drink , Stories A month ago, I wrote about a Civil War driving tour in Tennessee . Here's another one I found out about in an engaging article by Jodi Helmer in the November/December issue of AAA's Home and Away magazine. Helmer followed North Carolina's Blue-Gray Scenic Byway on a quest to find historic sites connected to the Civil...
By KARIN LAUB | Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) _ I srael's hardest battle may still lie ahead, and it's not against an Arab foe. Warnings are growing louder that evicting tens of thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank's heartland — a requirement for peace with the Arabs — will be bloody, and perhaps fail. The defense minister says extremism is spreading among ultranationalists like...
By presidential proclamation he appointed a governor for each of the former Confederate states and freely restored political rights to many Southerners through use of presidential pardons . In due time conventions were held in each of …[Continue Reading]
