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Source: NPR "Weekend Edition Sunday"

Roundup

12-4-06

Confederate Navy's new historical ite is in England [audio 5min]

This past week, the Civil War Preservation Trust designated a new historical site -- in England. The shipyards there supplied the Confederate Navy with some of its ships, including the CSS Alabama. Edwin Bearss, the Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service, talks with Andrea Seabrook.

Read entire article at NPR "Weekend Edition Sunday"