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Fife & drum leading troops into battle in 1776. (All photos on this page public domain unless otherwise credited.)81

Why I Love a Parade - Drums & Bugles

Don't miss these videos and histories of marching bands and drum & bugle corps from around the world, including even South Korea with Hip Hop!

5 comments    music videos hubchallenge
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America's Most Haunted -- Gettysburg, PA "Devil's Den"

On July 1, 1863, Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his troops from Northern Virginia up to south central Pennsylvania, to a small, rural town called Gettysburg. He was confronted there by Union General George G. Meade, and although a scrimage had not been planned, a three-day battle suddenly ensued that was extremely violent and ultimately very bloody.

37 comments    travel america paranormal
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States73

Facts About the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United StatesAbraham Lincoln was born in poverty. True to the American dream, he died as one of the greatest men in history. Abraham Lincoln presided over our country...

237 comments    education politics literature
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Through American eyes

Just to give a brief description...I'm an American. I'm an American because I believe in the core of what the United States is about. I work....I raise my family...I help what I can in the community. I try to...

48 comments    politics people america
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Surgery during Civil War

excerpts from :ehistory.com, and the article of Alfred Jay Bollet, M.D. The most common Civil War surgery was the amputation. A few words about why there were so many amputations may be appropriate here....

29 comments    health pictures photos
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The American Civil War: Experience It in Less Than 2000 Words

The American Civil War (1861-185) sometimes called, the war between the states, war between brothers, or war between the North and the South, was the most significant and greatest war ever fought on American...

0 comments    civil war slavery the civil war
General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army during the Civil War71

Review: Robert E. Lee

In his study Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Emory Thomas paints an intimate portrait of the man who many canonize in the former Confederacy. Thomas sets out, by his own admission to revise the image of Lee, or...

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Top 10 Hot Jobs in Aiken SC and Lower Savannah Region

In considering Travel and Tourism - and family vacations - think about the Aikin area on the western side of South Carolina beside Georgia. In a recent National Geographic issue dedicated to the Top 50 Tours...

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Movie Parables: Gods and Generals

Jeffrey M. Shaara’s bestseller, Gods and Generals was made into an epic motion picture that charted the early years of the American Civil War as well as the rise and fall of legendary war hero “Stonewall...

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America Becomes a Synonym for National Suicide

Perplexity may genuinely exist.  Historians, centuries from now, may truly still wonder, in awed amazement, how the majority and, perhaps, the vast majority of the American people had supinely willed...

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