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    Sep 28, 2012 | Daily Press

  1. Local author-historians bring Yorktown siege to life

    “Yorktown’s Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick,” offers enough information in the less than 200-page book to keep you interested even if you’re not a Civil War history buff. The book, published this year, is co-authored by well-known local historian John Quarstein and J. Michael Moore, the curator and registrar for Lee Hall mansion and Endview Plantation in Newport News.
    “Yorktown’s Civil War Siege: Drums Along the Warwick,” offers enough information in the less than 200-page book to keep you interested even if you’re not a Civil War history buff. The book, published this year, is co-authored by...

    Tags: Authors, Book, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions

    2. Nov 11, 2012 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  2. Looted court records return after 150 years

    Nobody knows exactly how many deeds, wills and other legal records might have been stored in the old Warwick County courthouse when the Civil War started.
    Nobody knows exactly how many deeds, wills and other legal records might have been stored in the old Warwick County courthouse when the Civil War started. But by the time the conflict ended in 1865, the single most comprehensive source of information...

    Tags: College of William and Mary, Crime, Law and Justice, Fort Monroe, Arts and Culture, Human Interest

    3. Aug 17, 2012 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  3. Civil War spawns huge Hampton hospital

    Few American armies have been more humbled by the reality of war than the Army of the Potomac during its summer 1862 march up the Peninsula from Fort Monroe to Richmond.
    Few American armies have been more humbled by the reality of war than the Army of the Potomac during its summer 1862 march up the Peninsula from Fort Monroe to Richmond. When its blue-clad legions landed at Old Point Comfort in March, it was the largest...

    Tags: Museums, Malaria, Human Interest, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Unrest, Conflicts and War

    4. Jul 1, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. THE CIVIL WAR: The Seven Days Battle

    While Union forces were making headlines pushing the rebels south through Kentucky and Tennessee in early 1862, Gen. George McClellan finally put his vaunted Army of the Potomac in the field in March, sending it by ship to Virginia with the intention of...

    Tags: Illinois Governor, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions

    5. Feb 11, 2013 |Story| Daily Press

  5. Saturday nature walks: Bluebirds and wildlife watching part of free outdoor events

    Feb. 16 is your chance to take a nice nature walk in upper York County and  James City County. Both nature walks encompass information about bluebirds, which are beginning to look for nesting places, so you can learn how to attract bluebirds to your own yard.
    Feb. 16 is your chance to take a nice nature walk in upper York County and  James City County. Both nature walks encompass information about bluebirds, which are beginning to look for nesting places, so you can learn how to attract bluebirds to your own...

    Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Battle of Yorktown (1781), York County (Virginia), York (York, Pennsylvania), Unrest, Conflicts and War

    6. Dec 26, 2012 |Story| Aberdeen News

  6. Former Aberdeen radio personality writes book about U.S. presidents

     To help get to sleep at night, Bill Hild sometimes delivers a silent lecture in his mind.  Like a teacher in class, he’ll discuss a subject such as the best U.S. presidents, or the greatest hitters on each Major League Baseball team from 1950...

    Tags: Radio, Politics, Executive Branch, Entertainment, Government

    7. Apr 3, 2012 |Story| Daily Press

  7. Civil War at 150: The Peninsula Campaign

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    8. May 28, 2008 |Story| Hartford Courant

  8. Battlefield Virginia

    Hartford Courant Staff Writer
    From the heavy guns of a seacoast fort through battle-scarred Yorktown and the swampy outskirts of Richmond, the Virginia Peninsula tells the story of a massive war campaign and the evolution of warfare. Along this finger of land cut by the York and...

    Tags: Slavery, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, American Civil War (1861-1865), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)

    9. Jun 3, 2001 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Robert E. Lee's Civil War

    Tribune staff reporter
    Come see the Civil War as Robert E. Lee saw it. Ken Burns' public television series on the conflict, the movie "Gettysburg" and the historical novels of Michael and Jeff Shaara have generated a new birth of fascination with the Civil War in recent years....

    Tags: George Washington, Slavery, Mississippi, Gardens and Parks, Condos and Houses

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