Civil War

Newspaper brings 1862 back to life (01/03/12)
Where are the rebels in Tennessee and what are they doing? If you read the front page of the Dec. 7, 1862 edition of the New York Herald during the Civil War, you would have learned that thousands of Confederate troops were massing south of a small town called Shelbyville...

Civil War comes alive (02/02/11)
The Civil War, 150 years later, still raises strong opinions among Americans of various regions and races. How should it be remembered? For what cause were the individual soldiers on each side truly fighting? A Murfreesboro physician who helped found the U.S. Colored Troops Living History Association believes that it's important to remember history, and he doesn't mind doing it by donning a period uniform and participating in re-enactments...

Farrar files civil rights suit vs. city (01/27/11)
A promised federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against Shelbyville Police Department, two officers and the mayor over an arrest that caused a man to serve over a year in jail for a crime he claims he did not commit. James Edward "Blue" Farrar Jr. alleges that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when officers arrested him in April 2009 for public intoxication. Farrar was sentenced to serve 14 months for violating his probation...

City considers historic markers as Civil War's 150th approaches (12/03/10)
Shelbyville's city council will consider applying for a grant next week to place historic markers in town for the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War. City manager Michael Dill told the council that there is going to be a lot of tourism in Tennessee over the next several years due to the sesquicentennial of the conflict, and Shelbyville needs to participate...

Copper taken from underneath home (04/24/08)
An estimated $2,500 worth of copper wiring was stolen between April 16 and Monday from a home under construction in Valley View Estates subdivision on Red Hill Road in Normandy. Builder John Morton told the Bedford County Sheriff's Department the wiring was taken from underneath the home...

Seminar in Murfreesboro focuses on Somalis (03/24/08)
MURFREESBORO -- "There will always be change." Those were the words of Salaad Nur, a Somali immigrant who spoke Thursday evening at Middle Tennessee State University to a group of students about the refugees who have moved to this state after fleeing their war torn country...

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