PENSACOLA, Fla. − It wasn’t exactly King Arthur’s sword in a stone; more like a sword in the sand that a man said he pulled from the surf on Pensacola Beach in Florida, but the reaction has been ...
SCRANTON, Pa. — What veterans here call a prized possession has made its way back home. Lieutenant Ezra Griffin is a big part of Scranton's history. Born and raised in Providence, what is now North ...
The sword was stolen so long ago -- the tale of its existence and paper trail of its theft lost in time -- that members of this Massachusetts lodge didn’t even know a prized possession was missing. A ...
At 29, the Scranton-born soldier succumbed to injuries received in battle. Creeping up on nearly two centuries later, the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Association of Scranton and Civil War ...
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — This sign hangs in the window of the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Museum and Library at the Marketplace at Steamtown, asking for help to return the sword of Civil War ...
The sword and scabbard of Civil War Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is displayed at Fleischer’s Auctions on Thursday in Columbus. The wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among ...
Hundreds of Civil War relics were unearthed during the cleanup of a South Carolina river where Union troops dumped Confederate military equipment to deliver a demoralizing blow for rebel forces in the ...
TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The gravesite of Civil War hero General George Thomas was rededicated Saturday after an almost 10-year restoration, during a ceremony that also celebrated his life on what ...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - A ribbon cutting inside Bethlehem's Nitschmann Middle School used scissors to honor a sword. "Looking at a sword that a man carried running up a hill to urge his men forward and then ...
TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Museum of History (KMoH) houses over 40 Civil War battle flags in desperate need of costly restoration. Boone Dodson is a curator at the KMoH who has been helping create the ...