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In 1956, while working as a historian at Vicksburg National Military Park, Edwin Bearss set out to recover and preserve the USS Cairo, a Union warship sunk in 1862 during the Civil War. Mr. …

Mr. Bearss and Mr. Wills talked with the program hosts about the history of the war as documented in books and photographs, and the ways the war is remembered today through the efforts of ba…

Ed Bearss, Author of "Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Struggle At Manassas National Battlefield Park", talked about his book.

The participants spoke about the importance of Civil War remembrance. Mr. Bearss discussed Civil War events on this date in history. Senator Bumpers, the founder of the Civil War Battlefield…