Michiana residents can experience a unique piece of Indiana history that’s more than 160 years in the making when the documentary, “The Diary of Henry J. McBride,” airs on local Public Broadcasting Station WNIT-TV in South Bend, Channel 34, at 9 a.m. Friday, July 26 and 8 p.m. Monday, August 5.
Read MoreThe 7th Indiana Light Artillery, one of the region’s most active Civil War re-enactment organizations, is hosting the fourth annual Nappanee Civil War Days this weekend, Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9, at the Power from the Past showgrounds, just north of The Barns, 1600 W. Market St., Nappanee.
Read MoreThere aren’t many pioneer festivals that 50 years. The Stone’s Trace Pioneer Festival is one of the lucky ones as it celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Read MoreTo the untrained eye it does not look like much; just some tattered remains of a cloth.
Read MoreSYRACUSE — The Syracuse Public Library has announced its activities for the upcoming week, June 11-16. Civil War and Chemistry — Coming to the library this week is an expert on the Civil War as told through letters from a Vermont soldier, as well as a book discussion … Read More
NAPPANEE — Mary Miller’s new prized possession is a cabin built near New Paris before the Civil War.
Read MoreJOCASSE VALLEY, S.C. — Lake Jocassee in South Carolina’s beautiful Upstate, is a recreational lover’s dream.
Read MoreROCHESTER — Since 1990 the Redbud Trail Rendezvous has brought fun history to northern Indiana. Often the first living history event of the spring, it portrays Indiana history from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. The Redbud Trail Rendezvous will be from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. … Read More
FLORENCE, S.C. — Salvors who picked over a Civil War gunboat probably thought the cannons were with the rest of the wreckage in a South Carolina river.
Read MoreBy ANDREA NEAL Even before Indiana began recruiting them, African-American Hoosiers volunteered to fight in the Civil War. An 1862 act of Congress allowed President Abraham Lincoln “to employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem necessary and proper for the suppression of this rebellion.” … Read More
By ANDREA NEAL Left camp at 9 o’clock. Rained all last night. Bad roads, slavish traveling today. Snowed all day, stalled several times … Traveled 10 miles. Private Albert S. Underwood of Parke County wrote those words on Jan. 18, 1864, as he moved south toward Tennessee with … Read More
By VALERIA FISHER Adult Program Administrator, Warsaw Community Public Library The history of the Civil War comes alive when Keven Stonerock presents “Billy Yank – Union Soldier.” He will present an actual soldier from Henry County, Indiana named William H. Fentress. This presentation is set in the year … Read More
Article by Laurie Voss, WCPL Circulation Supervisor It’s time for my annual trek to the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pa. If you have never been there, it is an awe-inspiring place to visit. I don’t think you can walk without stepping on or running headlong into a monument, as … Read More
From 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, Kosciusko County’s Old Jail Museum will host speaker Ronald L. Darrah as he presents a Civil War program. Darrah will explore the Civil War era and provide information for those who are interested in searching soldiers’ records and for those … Read More
