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Create a battle plan to visit Gettysburg's attractions, events during 150th anniversary weeks
In July 1863, the 2,400 residents of Gettysburg had little time to prepare for 170,000 Confederate and Union soldiers who advanced on the town. The soldiers clashed in a three-day battle that would paint its streets and pastoral farmlands crimson in the...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Music, Arts and Culture, Seminaries, Museums
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Saving soldiers' lives: Tour, exhibit and festival honor Gettysburg work of Daughters of Charity
When the Daughters of Charity awakened June 27, 1863, the pastoral grounds of their Emmitsburg, Md,. property had become a Union Army encampment for thousands of Union Army officers and men destined to fight during the Battle of Gettysburg. This would...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Arts and Culture, Museums, Social Issues, Human Interest
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West Hartford Resident Publishes Ancestor's Civil War Letters
The Hartford CourantIn 1972, Hurricane Agnes swept through Quincy Abbot's hometown in Forty Fort, Pa., and left four feet of water in the first floor of his parent's house. He went down to help out and wound up renting a U-Haul to bring a very old desk home with him to...Tags: Cigna Corporation, Newspaper and Magazine, Unrest, Conflicts and War, West Hartford, Rentals
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Library brings musical side of Lincoln to life
Enjoy a truly unique musical role-playing experience with General Grant and President Lincoln. Will and Bernadine Boyce have spent years perfecting their impersonations of General and Mrs. Grant (along with other Civil War personalities) and Dr. Duke...Tags: Culture, Music, Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Harford County
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Review: "The Civil War in 50 Objects" by Harold Holzer and the New-York Historical Society
"Slave Shackles Intended for a Child, ca. 1800" The caption for the first image in "The Civil War in 50 Objects" will stop a reader cold, but the photo of those shackles pierces the gut, teaching a lesson words never could. Historian Harold Holzer...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sociology, Wars and Interventions
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Raddatz returns, gets Centre degree while telling war stories to grads
tkleffman@amnews.comMartha Raddatz told one on herself Sunday during her commencement address to Centre College’s Class of 2013. The highly decorated and respected ABC foreign correspondent who has reported from war zones around the world, the White House and the...Tags: Louisville Slugger, Easter, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of Louisville
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Loyola sprinters pass test without a glitch
For those who run relays in track and field, passing the baton can be scarier than a scene from "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Just ask sprinter Morgan Simon of Los Angeles Loyola High. He remembers suddenly dreaming about dropping the baton. "I looked...
Tags: Track and Field
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Ken Venturi dies at 82; golfer had dramatic win in 1964 U.S. Open
Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He was 82. Venturi, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, died at...
Tags: Fatigue, CBS Corp., Pneumonia, Sports, Masters Tournament
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Chan Lowe: Obama's scandals
The affection that Barack Obama’s supporters feel for him has always been based more on what he is rather than who he is. The first African-American president. The constitutional scholar. The man who dedicated his early career to organizing society&...
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton
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Ranson firm preserves the fabric of American history
richardb@herald-mail.comThe clothes Abraham Lincoln wore to Ford’s Theater, the flag on Iwo Jima, Stonewall Jackson’s uniform, pre-Columbian textiles and hundreds more artifacts like them have been spread across tables in a small shop in Ranson. Textile Preservation...Tags: Brunswick (Frederick, Maryland), Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Museums, Washington, DC
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