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• Library hosting 'Civil War Heroes'
  A program titled "African-American Civil War Heroes" will be hosted by Henderson County Public Library on Feb. 25.
• US diplomats heading to S. Lanka for civil war talks
  Three American diplomats will travel to Sri Lanka for talks about alleged killings of civilians by government troops in their campaign to defeat the Tamil Tigers, an official and report said Sunday.
• Blacks and the Civil War
  The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission opens its African-American Civil War lecture series 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday in Darrah Hall at the Penn Center (16 Penn Center Circle W.) on St. Helena, one of four sites at which the series will be conducted in the coming months.
• 'War on Terror' knocks on American homeland's door
  Osama bin Laden is dead, but Washington’s War on Terrorism continues to rage in the hearts and minds of many Americans. New counterterrorism provisions raise the specter of mandatory military detention in the US.
• Civil War Roundtable speaker creates a presentation, wins $5 bet
  Susan Kuecker, the next speaker at the California Civil War Roundtable, will present "The Most Brilliant Expedition of the War: Gen. Benjamin Grierson and his Raid," having dipped into her background about Iowa and the Civil War -- and Pittsburgh.
• Minorities historian speaks to crowd about his own past
  GERMANTOWN — When Greene County Minorities Historian Charles Swain talks about the famous “Buffalo Soldiers,” the African-American regiments who fought on the Union side in the Civil War, he’s talking about his family history.
• Palmer Museum window display honors the Civil War
  YORK — The window display of the Anna Palmer Museum tells a different story each month. This month, it is dedicated to the American Civil War.
• January 1862: Columbus adjusts to ongoing Civil War
  More than 25 years after the end of the American Civil War, Columbus veteran and local historian Alfred Emory Lee summed up the mood of the city as the conflict entered its second calendar year in January 1862: “The year opened rather cheerlessly. The vast volunteer host which had so nobly responded to the various calls of the President had as yet experienced but faintly the inspiration of ...
• Learn more about the Civil War
  Why did Abraham Lincoln sneak into Washington for his inauguration? Why did Robert E. Lee resign from the U.S. Army? Did you know the Civil War cost the Union side more than $6 million and the Confederate states around $3 million?
• Long Wharf: Fleeting memories in a pre-Civil War African American neighborhood
  Editor’s note: February is Black History Month, during which The Sun Journal is presenting this and other stories about historically significant black neighborhoods and personalities.