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- Re-enactment of 1863 Civil War battle in East Tennessee is dropped
Sponsors have dropped plans for a traditional re-enactment of the Civil War Battle of Blue Springs.
According to The Greeneville Sun, the event was to have been held either this year or in 2011.
Until last year, the town of Mosheim in Greene County had underwritten the re-enactment for 16 years. It was not held last year [...]
- Civil War groups to hold fundraiser at Applebee’s
Even during the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers sometimes came together for peaceful purposes.
So maybe it is only natural that groups like the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Sons of Confederate Veterans should offer a meal to raise money together.
Descendants of the two opposing sides from long ago [...]
- Bennett Place Program Features Largest Civil War Troop Surrender
Two hardened war adversaries who later became great friends negotiated the largest troop surrender of the American Civil War at Bennett Farm near Durham Station on April 26, 1865. A re-enactment of one of the war's last surrenders will be held at Bennett Place State Historic Site on Saturday and Sunday, April 17-18, highlighting a [...]
- Historical Society Launches Effort To Post Civil War Items Online
The Kansas Historical Society announced it will partner with other Kansas and Missouri organizations to digitize items from their Civil War collections. The Kansas City Public Library recently received a grant from the Missouri State Library and will use those funds to facilitate the planning phase of this major historical digitization initiative, called The Missouri-Kansas [...]
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Abercrombie, John Joseph - Brigadier General Volunteers (Generals)
By CivilWarTalk
He was graduated at West Point in 1822, served as adjutant in the 1st Infantry from 1825 to 1833, and was made captain in 1836. He served in the Florida war, and was brevetted major for gallant conduct at the battle of Okeechobee. He was engaged in frontier duty in the west until the Mexican war. For gallantry at the battle of Monterey, where he was wounded, he received the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel. He was at the siege of Vera Cruz and at Cerro Gordo, and served in 1847 as aide-de-camp to General Patterson.
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