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Civil War General and wife’s love letters recently donated to Virginia Tech by great-great-granddaughter
When General Wharton’s great-great granddaughter, Sue Bell, and her parents were selling the home in the 1980s and rummaging ...
Times Observer2d
160th Anniversary of the Civil War’s end celebrated Wednesday
April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...
The Roanoke Times11d
CASEY: Treasure trove of Civil War documents finds a home at Virginia Tech
A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War
Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short ... that the farmers of Liberia could bolster the Union war effort. Mercifully for Union generals, President Abraham Lincoln officially ...
The New York Times21d
War in Sudan: How Two Rival Generals Started Africa’s Largest Conflict
A civil war has engulfed the country for two years, but some of the fiercest clashes have taken place in the sprawling city on the Nile, where the Sudanese military is battling the Rapid Support ...
The Economist11d
Khartoum changes hands, marking a new phase in Sudan’s civil war
To sweeten the deal, outsiders may offer to recognise an SAF-led government in Khartoum and help pay to rebuild the battered ...
SFGate14d
Myanmar’s civil war: How shifting US-Russia ties could tip balance and hand China a greater role
The resulting civil war – now into its fourth year – has seen 6,000-plus ... Myanmar and Russia engage in joint naval exercises, and Moscow is a top supplier of weapons to Myanmar’s generals and ...