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The destruction of the US
Published: Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 @ 3:12 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Inman is driven toward his inevitable purpose in this love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War in Virginia and North Carolina.
Published: Monday, December 27th, 2021 @ 11:05 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Arlington Cemetery, on the southern shore of the Potomac River across from Washington, DC, is hallowed ground for the United States of America as a final resting place for her greatest heroes
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2016 @ 9:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This is the seventeenth of a less new series of images from across North Carolina from my travels, and from the long intervals that I have spent with my camera making a record of where I have been.
Published: Sunday, January 24th, 2016 @ 3:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Shenandoah Valley exists as a long, fertile, and largely agrarian, stretch of land framed by the Potomac River to the north and the James River to the south, as well as being buttressed by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the East and the Appalachian Ridge and Valley ranges to the west.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 6:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born near Farmville, Virginia on February 3, 1807.
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2013 @ 1:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Until its capture by the Union army in 1865, Fort Fisher was the largest earthwork fortification in the world.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 4:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A graduate of West Point, Daniel Harvey Hill founded the North Carolina Military Institute on the West Point model.
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2012 @ 9:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A planter, Confederate general, and a University of North Carolina trustee, Bryan Grimes was one of the Tar Heel State's most respected men.
Published: Sunday, November 11th, 2012 @ 3:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong." -- Zora Neale Hurston.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 4:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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For more than a year, historians and history buffs have been recognizing the 150th anniversary of various battles and other significant events in the Civil War.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2012 @ 3:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hood demonstrated that 150 years ago this week during the Second Battle of Bull Run. Called Second Manassas by the Confederates, the August 28-30 battle pitted the Union's Army of Virginia, led by Major General John Pope, against General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2012 @ 1:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today is the sesquicentennial of the first day of the Battle of Seven Pines. It was a key moment in the brief history of the Confederate States of America, the long history of the United States of America, and the very long history of unintended consequences.
Published: Friday, June 1st, 2012 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tybee Island is a small sandy oasis, in the vast savannah of salt marsh, in the east Georgia lowlands at the mouth of the Savannah River.
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2010 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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