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Sunday, April 07, 2013  A memorial service was held Saturday to honor the men of the Confederate Army that died durig the Civil War.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013  The Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery turned 150 years old when the ball dropped and on Tuesday local churches celebrated by singing anthems and talking about the historical event.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011  The first shot of the American Civil War was fired 150 years ago today. The aftermath of the bloody conflict meant radical changes and challenges for all of Southwest Georgia.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009  With a hand on Abraham Lincoln's inaugural bible, and before a crowd stretching across the National Mall toward where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream of racial equality, the 47-year-old Obama was sworn in as the first black American president by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008  Barack Obama will be the first president since Lincoln to use that Bible, part of the collection of the Library of Congress.