Read more Civil War stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/11227/civil-war.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:29:03 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73809/best-war-movies-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn honor of Veterans Day, the Huffington Post runs down the best war movies of all time: Apocalypse Now: Vietnam War From Here to Eternity: Pearl Harbor Patton: World War II Braveheart: Scotland’s battle for independence Lawrence of Arabia: World War I Band of Brothers: World War II (and, yes,...http://www.newser.com/story/73809/best-war-movies-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/63793/ben-stein-to-wal-mart-hands-off-civil-war-battlefield.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBen Stein loves Wal-Mart—just don’t put one smack-dab in the middle of a historic Civil War battlefield in Orange, Va. The 1864 Battle of the Wilderness was a turning point in the conflict, Stein writes in the American Spectator , and the “battlefield is incredibly important environmentally and historically and...http://www.newser.com/story/63793/ben-stein-to-wal-mart-hands-off-civil-war-battlefield.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 07 Jul 2009 15:29:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60426/lost-and-found-letter-shows-lincolns-terse-side.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA handwritten note dated just a few days before Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has finally made its way back to the National Archives, the Washington Post reports. The terse communication from the president to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase addressed corruption charges against a Lincoln appointee. "Even though this item...http://www.newser.com/story/60426/lost-and-found-letter-shows-lincolns-terse-side.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 29 May 2009 10:59:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59994/woman-won-male-rights-fighting-in-civil-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA veteran of 40 Civil War skirmishes and battles kept one secret under wraps: her breasts. Union Army soldier Albert Cashier was really Jennie Hodgers, one of hundreds of women who fought in the war. "The country needed men, and I wanted excitement," Hodgers said. She also benefited from 19th-century...http://www.newser.com/story/59994/woman-won-male-rights-fighting-in-civil-war.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 24 May 2009 18:50:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56633/time-to-stop-fighting-the-civil-war-in-history-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAsk a Northerner what caused the Civil War and he'll say slavery, while Southerners are likely to say states’ rights, or economic differences. That self-justifying shorthand is reflected in what's taught in schools, too. But with the election of Barack Obama, historians say new ground has been broken in the...http://www.newser.com/story/56633/time-to-stop-fighting-the-civil-war-in-history-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Apr 2009 11:56:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56291/book-missing-since-civil-war-returned-to-virginia-school.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Virginia college has a missing library book back—145 years after a Union soldier stole it during the Civil War. An Illinois man who inherited the book from friends tracked down the original owner and returned it to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, reports the Washington Post . The...http://www.newser.com/story/56291/book-missing-since-civil-war-returned-to-virginia-school.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Apr 2009 19:06:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52947/lincolns-watch-yields-hidden-message.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA legend about a DC watchmaker who etched a secret message inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch is true, the Washington Post reports. Smithsonian officials opened the watch today and found it amid the tiny gears: "Jonathan Dillon April 13, 1861. Fort Sumter was attacked by the rebels on the above...http://www.newser.com/story/52947/lincolns-watch-yields-hidden-message.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Mar 2009 17:15:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50658/lincolns-gettysburg-poetry-resonates.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf anyone has a right to be tired of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, it's writer and producer David Grubin. As a sixth-grader, he had to write it out 100 times or so—his teacher's favorite form of punishment. The actual words meant little to him as a 12-year-old, but their...http://www.newser.com/story/50658/lincolns-gettysburg-poetry-resonates.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Feb 2009 15:50:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/45493/anti-abe-views-resonate-in-dixie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe bicentennial of Lincoln's birth will be celebrated Feb. 12, so expect endless tributes to the president beloved by ordinary citizens and historians alike. Unless, of course, you're south of the Mason-Dixon line, where anti-Lincoln views "aren't particularly radical," writes Alex Beam of the Boston Globe . Lincoln is viewed by...http://www.newser.com/story/45493/anti-abe-views-resonate-in-dixie.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Dec 2008 17:24:44 CST