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INDIANAPOLIS — A rare, defective Civil War gun with Hoosier ties is up for auction this week. Appraisers don't know who used it in the war and won't say who's selling it. Just about the only ...
A rare Civil War sword belonging to Union Brigadier General Eli H. Murray will be sold at an auction of Americana in Scottsdale, Arizona next week.
Read transcripts from the 1865 diary of a Civil War guard. At the 2008 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event in Wichita, a guest brought his ancestor's fragile diary from 1865 to the Books & Manuscripts table ...
Three rare tokens issued as money during the English Civil War in Nottinghamshire have fetched nearly £10,000 at auction. The town of Newark on Trent was held by forces loyal to King Charles I ...
Maritime archaeologists and researchers in North Carolina recently discovered one of the most significant shipwrecks found off the U.S. East Coast in recent years.
The Civil War battle flag accompanied a volunteer militia comprised of privileged South Carolina men who, in 1864, joined a terrible battle that decimated the battalion. A flag recently discovered ...
Civil War photo historian Ronald S. Coddington, who researched the picture for his 2012 book African American Faces of the Civil War, said it is one of the most important photos to come out of the ...
The arsenic-laden pages of "Shadows from the Walls of Death" should not be touched without gloves. Shadows from the Walls of ...
Bidding opens at 9 a.m. Tuesday for a two-day auction of items, including personal effects of Gen. William T. Sherman and African American relics.
This how to guide to cleaning rust of civil war artillery projectiles (that have been disarmed or solid bolts), tools, or anything else with electrolysis. We took this rare civil war artillery ...