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Tag: Spring 2023

Galloping Goose train

Tracking the History of Mile-High Railroads

by Linda Wommack5/8/20235/8/2023

Ridgway, Colorado, was the birthplace of the Rio Grande Southern, and the Ridgway Railroad Museum celebrates that fact.

Harry Buckwalter in balloon

One of This Western Director’s Scenes Looked So Real That It Provoked Actual Gunfire

by David McCormick5/5/20235/5/2023
Reenactment of shooting in Bellevue

These Blundering Bandits Didn’t Wear Masks or Have an Escape Plan—No Surprise They Blew This Railroad Heist

by Terry Halden4/28/20234/27/2024
Battle of Aldie, Va.

Revisiting the ‘Small but Important Riots’ between Brandy Station and Gettysburg

by James R. Jewell4/27/20233/21/2023

This Montana Painter Takes His Inspiration From the ‘Cowboy Artist’

by Johnny D. Boggs4/24/20233/28/2023
Civil War soldiers

Was the Civil War Really a Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight?

by Caroline E. Janney4/20/20234/20/2023

Can You Identify These Deadly Union Sharpshooters?

by Dana B. Shoaf4/13/20232/2/2023
Political cartoon showing South Carolina as a donkey

When South Carolina Threatened Secession… 30 Years Before the Civil War

by Brian C. Neumann4/12/20234/6/2023
Group of Union officers drinking liquor in camp

Liquor Numbed the Pain, Took the Edge Off Homesickness… and Caused Havoc During the Civil War

by Megan L. Bever4/6/20234/6/2023
Burnside expedition lands on Roanoke Island, NC

‘Loose lips sink ships’: How Northern Newspapers Gave Away Vital Intelligence to the Confederacy

by Bruce Allardice4/3/20234/3/2023

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