It was a scene from 150 years ago: men clad in blue and gray, exchanging gunfire across a dirt field to the sounds of booming cannons, neighing horses and groaning casualties. The Civil War began with a shot fired in Charleston, S.C., on April 12, 1861. The battles that followed that fateful day during the four-year war that united a divided nation were recreated Saturday at Pierce College Farm Center in Woodland Hills.
HOPEWELL - Even in a bloody conflict like the Civil War, some battles weren't fought with bullets and bayonets. As a special living history program on "Women in the Civil War" made clear on Saturday, loneliness, fear, prejudice, pride and public opinion could sometimes be enemies as formidable for those on the home front as a host of armed men on the battlefield.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Yemen's defense ministry said [Ali Abdullah Saleh] had ordered that al-Ahmar and nine brothers be brought to justice for "for armed rebellion". The coalition of opposition parties that has sided with protesters and was due to sign the deal brokered by GCC held an emergency meeting on Thursday over what it called Saleh's "insistence on dragging Yemen towards civil war". Armed tribesmen loyal to Yemen' tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar patrol outside his house in Sanaa May 26, 2011. Dozens of Yemenis were killed in overnight gun battles in the capital, government officials said on Thursday, as fighting aimed at ending President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decadelong rule threatened to ignite civi! war. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Ken Scott's house in Cordova contains an entire history book spread across the walls of his third-floor den. Scott's late father, artist Fred V. Scott, left Ken and his three siblings the legacy of a 19-panel painting that commemorates the Civil War battles of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee, which when lined up end-to-end create a U-shaped, panoramic view of the entire state and its bloodiest era.
African-Americans, free and enslaved, knew from the first shots of the Civil War that freedom was on the line. Federal political and military leaders first hedged in calling for abolition even in the rebellious Southern states, arguing that the fight was to preserve the union. Some Union generals refused to let escaping slaves through their lines in the first year of the war.
TRIPOLI, Libya - Government forces in tanks rolled into the opposition-held city closest to Tripoli after blasting it with artillery and mortar fire, while rebels captured a key oil port and pushed toward Moammar Gadhafi's hometown in a seesaw Saturday for both sides in the bloody battle for control of Libya. With the Gadhafi regime's tanks prowling the center of the city of Zawiya, west of Tripoli, residents ferried the wounded from the fierce fighting in private cars to a makeshift clinic in a mosque, fearing that any injured taken to the military-controlled hospital "will be killed for sure," one rebel said after nightfall.
Growing up in Beaufort, N.C., not far from the sites of several Civil War battles, Lt. Col. Wade Sokolosky developed an interest in military history that would eventually lead him to write a book. No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar - Sherman's Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro was released on the anniversary of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's battles through South Carolina and North Carolina in February and March of 1865.
Union soldiers overwhelmed the smaller Confederate army by the afternoon, forcing them to retreat.
CHINO - It is not every day around here that the Confederate flag is flapping in the wind. But it is also not every day that a Gettysburg-styled battle breaks out in in the middle of Chino's Prado Regional Park.
HOPEWELL - An Illinois company that's in town this weekend offering to buy Civil War-related memorabilia has been drawing fire itself over some of its past advertising. Billing itself as the International Military Collectors Association, THR & Associates Inc. of Springfield, Ill., is "open to public to purchase your war memorabilia" at the Hampton Inn through Saturday, according to its ads.
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