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Speaker shares glimpse of Civil War soldier’s life through letters

FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS — Ken Spurgeon, assistant professor of history at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, presented the Friends of Frontier Army Museum speaker series lecture Feb. 26, 2025, ...
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Forged by fire, the reinvention and modernization of the U.S. Army in the Civil War.

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations that generate combat power.1 Institutional strategy, the mechanism by which ...
Military Times

Mail-in voting is nothing new, just ask Civil War soldiers

A rendering of Pennsylvania soldiers voting by artist William Waud was published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 29, 1864. (Library of Congress) “We cannot have free government without elections,” President ...
CBS News

Pennsylvania museum ensuring thousands of Black Civil War soldiers' legacies not forgotten

As the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the legacy of thousands of Black Civil War soldiers who once trained in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, will never be forgotten, thanks to the Camp ...
WTOP News

African American Civil War Museum honors the Black soldiers who ended the Civil War on Juneteenth

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago to tell the last ...