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Preservationists Try Again To Stop Walmart At The Wilderness
By Scott C. Boyd
LOCUST GROVE, Va. — “We don’t want Walmart putting asphalt over the graves of the young men that died in the Wilderness battlefield,” Texas Congressman Ted Poe told a news conference held where that pivotal battle was fought on May 5-6, 1864, in central Virginia.

Philadelphia Museum Is Hopeful For State Funds
By Herb Kaufman
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Despite the governor’s refusal to release $15 million in state funds promised for a new facility, officials of the Civil War Museum of Philadelphia are hopeful that they eventually will have a new home.

Chancellorsville Receives 5th Maine Battery Soldier’s Medal
By Scott C. Boyd
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — “He was fighting for minutes. He wasn’t fighting for space. He wasn’t fighting to take a hill or even to defend a hill.

Soldier Remains Found In Franklin
By Gregory L. Wade
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Workers uncovered a partial skeleton at a Franklin construction site as a machine operator removed dirt in a trenching operation.

A Surprise At Monument Ceremony Honoring 51 Confederates
By Scott C. Boyd
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — “I’ll just surprise everybody,” Dan Boyette thought to himself. He had no idea how amazed the event organizers were going to be.

GAR Museum Is Asked To Allow Lincoln DNA Testing
By Herb Kaufman
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A modest 9-by-11-inch frame with a small 4-inch piece of stained material that is on display at the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library recently captured headlines in Philadelphia and beyond.

American Irish Give Bronze Bust Of Gen. Meagher To Waterford, Ireland
By John E. McInerney
WATERFORD, Ireland — “Civil War General Thomas Francis Meagher finally made it home to Waterford City,” declared Jack O’Brien, president of the Irish Cultural Society and historian for the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Washington, D.C., during a recent visit to Ireland.

Updated 5/29/2009 (more articles added 7/29/09)