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How the landscape across the Potomac River from Edwards Ferry, Maryland, would have looked to a Civil War "aeronaut." See below for interactive 360-degree view. Ordinarily you would find Jim Green ...
During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States ... the Virginia home of George Washington on the banks of the Potomac River, was a refuge for Union and Confederate ...
By dawn, the Black Diamond was on the bottom of the river, the Massachusetts ... article “Peril on the Potomac: The Sinking of Black Diamond” for America’s Civil War Magazine, uncovered ...
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2025 Dinner Cruises Feature Seafood, History
The St. Mary’s County Museum Division has launched its 2025 Dinner and a Cruise Series, featuring seven themed cruises on the ...
A photo of the artifact was included in a Civil War Trails marker ... 1865 on the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,800 people. What happened on the Potomac “just got lost to history ...
McPherson provides background on the Union occupation of Alexandria and the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. On May 24, 1861, Union troops crossed the Potomac River and occupied ...
Library of Congress Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lay sleeping on the night of October 16, 1859, as 19 heavily armed men stole down mist-shrouded bluffs along the Potomac River where it joins the ...
The Stillwater Civil War Roundtable recently held their annual dinner meeting at First Place Christian Center in Troy.
This $615 million project is key to cleaning up the Potomac River ... Some of them date back to the Civil War. Pushed to clean them up, communities have been building vast tunnels like this ...