A century ago, the mayor of Emden in Logan County was an 82-year-old Civil War veteran who survived a stint in Georgia's notorious Andersonville prison. This local history and more: ...

1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...

Although Lincoln takes place in the waning months of the Civil War, it depicts the struggle to ... to find and depicts fictionalized Union prisoners of war at Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia, ...

Americus, Georgia is a charming small town that perfectly blends history and art. Find out all the best things to do in Americus here! From staying at a historic Victorian hotel that's a crown jewel ...

He learned later that a customer who had fought in the Civil War had brought them back from a Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia, and had given them to Old John as a souvenir.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Cordele Boy Scout Troop 270 is celebrating its thirty-fifth year in 2015 and is looking to add new Scouts to our roster.  The Troop was founded in October ...

Most of the passengers were Union soldiers returning from the Civil War or from Confederate prison camps ... were survivors of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia. The ...

Karen Stone of Fredericksburg has written a book about the Black Diamond disaster, a forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River ...

ANDERSONVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - Andersonville National Cemetery ... and National Prisoner of War Museum will be closing at regular hours and will remain closed during the program, the post said.