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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...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Battle of Yorktown (1781), Camp Peary (military base), Wars and Interventions, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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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: Politics, Radio, Book, Government, Executive Branch
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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: Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Union (McHenry, Illinois), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Illinois Governor
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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...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Book, Wars and Interventions, Authors
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Civil War at 150: The Peninsula Campaign
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Battlefield Virginia
Hartford Courant Staff WriterFrom 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: Fort Monroe, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Wars and Interventions, Defense
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Robert E. Lee's Civil War
Tribune staff reporterCome 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: Wars and Interventions, White House, National Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Thomas Jefferson
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