Sunday, May 8, 2011

Wartime Virginia

BESTDEST
Virginia Historical Society

Pvt. Henry Bird of the Petersburg Grays

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"A number of museums and historical groups are commemorating this year's 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Among the best exhibits: "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia." Assembled by the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, the show features more than 200 objects (among them: Gen. Stonewall Jackson's pocket watch), interactive technology (can you text faster than a telegraph operator from the 1860s?) and 17 audio-visual programs (including an all-too-vivid battle scene)."

Via Ann, Belle Grove

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