KINSTON, NC (WECT) - Most people are aware of the many ground battles that took place between 1861 and 1865, but both the Union and Confederate armies had a variety of naval warships. Before the war ...

KINSTON, N.C. (AP) – Rarely seen artifacts such as a shipping crate for U.S. muskets will go on view as part of a new exhibit at the CSS Civil War Interpretative Center in Kinston. The exhibit titled ...

KINSTON —The remnants of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse sit in a climate-controlled facility in downtown Kinston, a far cry from the bottom of the Neuse River. How it got there is explained in a ...

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The February meeting of the Rufus Barringer Civil War Round Table will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Civic ...

Calling all Civil War history buffs and lovers of all things nautical: The CSS Neuse Center in downtown Kinston will be hosting a program Saturday that will teach visitors the skills needed, and ...

Matthew Young’s love of ships, the navy and the Civil War as well as his desire to preserve history while making these available to the public has led him on a four-year questto make the CSS Neuse ...

Using her talent as an artist, Natalie Dail has written herself into the long history of the Civil War gunboat CSS Neuse. The South Lenoir High School senior won a contest sponsored by the CSS Neuse ...

Teachers now have the opportunity to bring more eastern Carolina history into the classroom. Lenoir County history teachers swapped places with their students for a day to learn from the CSS Neuse ...

“Heirlooms, Antiques, and Militaria” is a free program aimed to answer questions about family trinkets. “We wanted to do something like “Antiques Roadshow” said CSS Neuse Site Manager Matthew Young in ...

The CSS Neuse is a rare piece of Civil War history – a remarkably intact ironclad ship freed 50 years ago from the Neuse River. Now the state’s archaeologists are going back for more. On Monday ...

The CSS Neuse Civil War Museum opened to the public on Saturday with limited capacity after being closed for almost six months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. With new procedures in place, the museum ...