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Manassas: Moment of Truth

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

The heat bore down oppressively. Not the soaring temperatures I’d known in California, but rather a choking, wet warmth that signaled I had come back to the land of war. That was one of the first things I noticed, stepping … Continue reading →

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Limb Pit at Manassas National Battlefield Continues to Show the Horrors of Civil War Medicine

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Paige Gibbons Backus

After over 150 years, the Civil War is still one of the mostly widely studied historical moments in history with new discoveries continuously being made. Recently one of these extraordinary finds took place while workers were digging at a construction … Continue reading →

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