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It was December of 1864 and while there was snow on the ground, there was none of the joy of a “White Christmas” in Virginia that year....
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It was the most celebrated ship in the U.S. Navy at the time… the ironclad USS Monitor. It had fought the Confederate ironclad, CSS Virginia,...
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It was summer in Virginia, hot and humid. The young wife and mother sat on the porch of her house in order to catch a breeze and the light, as she...
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The battle of Williamsburg, which occurred on May 5, 1862, was officially a “rear-guard” action which allowed the Confederate army to get...
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The young soldier had recently been widowed. On leave from his unit, and trying to forget the wife he had lost in childbirth, he spent time on a...
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Yorktown, Virginia is normally associated with General George Washington and the Revolutionary War siege of 1781. It was there that the American Army,...
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On the rainy afternoon of May 5, 1862, a regiment of Confederates got lost in the woods… It was at the battle of Williamsburg, Virginia, and...
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Captain William Morse of the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry had special reason to remember the fighting at Williamsburg, Virginia, in early May of...
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