History Seekers on MSN

We followed a 160-year-old Civil War map & you won’t believe what we found

Armed with a 160-year-old Civil War battlefield map and our trusty metal detectors, we set off to explore forgotten sites of ...
Daily Herald

Reliving the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, and discovering an Illinois connection

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga 250: Civil War battlefields are close to home 160 years later

Chattanooga: Its every suburb was a battlefield. These are the words that open the first chapter of historian Zella Armstrong's second volume of "The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, ...
Tennessean

Remembering the battle of Nashville in the Civil War fought 160 years ago

On Dec. 15, 1864 — 160 years ago today — the Battle of Nashville began. Just weeks after his defeats at Spring Hill and Franklin, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood again tried to take his Army of ...

Man discovers more than 200 Civil War-era cannonballs on his property

The search quickly turned up hundreds of Civil War munitions, including grape shot, canister shot and case shot, all ...
Moviefone

Civil War: Blood on the Battlefields - Season 1 (2015)

Part 2 of 3. The American Civil War enters its second year in the summer of 1862, becoming a more brutal conflict than anyone ever imagined. The death toll continues to rise on both sides by the ...