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Book Excerpt: ‘Unionists in Virginia’

The effort anti-secession Virginians, dubbed Unionists by the press, played in trying to save the nation from civil war is rarely told.

October 24, 2014 will see the grand opening of a new permanent exhibit at the Morgan County Archives: The Civil War in Morgan County, AL.

Curator Andrew Talkov of the Virginia Historical Society discusses the thinking behind this exhibit for the Civil War Sesquicentennial.

Euharlee History Museum, 15 minutes west of Cartersville, GA, recently opened a new temporary exhibit on the Civil War history of the area.

When she arrived in the city of Knoxville, Confederate spy Belle Boyd’s celebrity status preceded her; she was sought out by a large crowd.