Moores Creek ceremonies mark significant battle in American Revolutionary War
Musket fire, demonstrations and reflective ceremonies are part of a weekend of events marking the 249th anniversary of a ...
Maj. Gen. Edward Greer, trailblazing Army leader, laid to rest at Fort Bliss cemetery
Edward Greer, who enlisted in the segregated Army during World War II and rose to become one of the service’s first Black ...
Readers sound off on Confederate sympathies, NATO contributions and Paul Simon’s roots
On July 4, 1776, the hallowed Founding Fathers declared America’s independence. However, the only beneficiaries were white ...
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Talbot County’s United States Colored Troops fought with valor and honor
Though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, did not free the enslaved people in Maryland, it allowed African Americans throughout the nation to serve in the Union ...
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Echoes From Our Past — Steve Cottrell: Edward Ellis killed at Battle of Shiloh
Born in Maine in 1819, Nevada City pioneer Edward W. F. Ellis moved with his parents to Felicity, Ohio in 1838, and in 1842 ...