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Step Back in Time with a Live Fire Test of a Civil War Cannon
Experience the thunderous power of history as an original 1865 Civil War cannon is fired. This live demonstration shows how these legendary weapons worked and sounded on the battlefield.
While sweeping the grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park as part of a rehabilitation project, an archaeologist ...
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...
On Saturday, July 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Castlerock Museum in Alma will host a special program with reenactors from the ...
The cannon, which originally sat in G.A.R. Park on Murdock Ave. before being moved to its present location, was sold to the town in the years following the Civil War, according to Murphy. More in U.S.
The Lorena Sternwheeler Civil War Reenactment and Encampment will sail from Zane’s Landing Park in downtown Zanesville Friday, July 19 ...
In September 1911, two cannons were ordered to honor Civil War veterans belonging to Bryant Post 62 Grand Army of the Republic. Two brass cannons, weighing around 900 pounds each, ...
The third anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon will be celebrated with an artillery demonstration 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.