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Next week on Tuesday October 28 and Wednesday October 29 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Monroe County Community College there will be a forum where local residents can voice how they feel the battlefield should be developed and how they see it best helping to inprove Monroe’s economy.
Let’s all be there to make sure this [...]
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The Armies of the North and the South laid waste to thousands of miles of fencelines that seperated field from field, and kept animals from consuming the crops. This destruction can be noted as a major contributor to the collapse of the Confederacy. Because of the ease in construction of rail fences, they were also easy to tear down. One [...]
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Let’s see how many questions you can get right! Remember when our grandparents and great-grandparents stated they only had an 8th Grade education? This is the final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, and reprinted [...]
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In May 1861, the Confederate government placed all of its forces in the Southwest under the command of Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch of Texas. Thus, the military district of Indian Territory was created. McCulloch moved into the Indian Territory and organized immediately three Indian regiments and placed these three Indian regiments together with one regiment from [...]
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I apologize to all of you who have been following the Five Indain Nations series waiting for me to finish it up. But, like many writers we are inspired at weird times. I finally hit that moment when everything came together to finish Book two in Savannah Meade’s civil war trilogy “Only Ghosts Came Home” [...]
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