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Author Archives: Feather Schwartz Foster
Wilmer McLean: A Plague on Both His Houses
Wilmer McLean is one of those oddities of the Civil War, where truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Wilmer McLean was a Virginia wholesale grocer, who at age 39 married a well-to-do widow with two children and a moderate plantation … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Appomattox Court House, Civil War history, Col. Charles Marshall, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Battle of Bull Run, First Manassas, Ft. Sumter, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Lee aide Col. Marshall, General Pierre Beauregard, General PTG Beauregard, General Robert E. Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant, history, Joseph E. Johnston, Manassas, President Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Second Battle of Bull run, Second Manassas, The Peninsula Campaign, The siege of Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Wilmer McLean
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Ellen Wilson’s Great Sadness
Ellen Axson came from a family prone to severe melancholy. Ellen Axson: Family Caretaker Ellen Axson (1860-1914), was born in Georgia, just as the Civil War was beginning. From earliest childhood, she showed a decided talent for art, but family … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged American history, Edward Axson, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Ellen Axson Wilson, Ellen Axson's family, Ellen Wilson's brother Eddie Axson, Ellen Wilson's brother Stockton Axson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, history, Jane Pierce, Mary Lincoln, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Presidential history, Presidential wives, Stockton Axson, US history, White House history, Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson's brother-in-law Eddie Axson
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Lincoln’s First General: Winfield Scott
When Abraham Lincoln was a small child, Winfield Scott was already a military commander of stature. Winfield Scott, Virginian Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was born near Petersburg, Virginia to a family of gentry. He attended the College of William and Mary, … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Nifty History People
Tagged "Old Fat and feeble", "Old Fuss and feathers", "The Anacoda Plan", Abraham Lincoln, American history, Black Hawk war history, Civil War history, Civil War strategy Anaconda Plan, Col. Robert E. Lee, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Ulysses S. Grant, General Winfield Scott, General Zachary Taylor, Henry w. Halleck, history, Presidential candidate Winfield Scott, Presidential history, Robedrt E. Lee, The election of 1852, the Mexican War, US history, War of 1812 history, War with Mexico, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor
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Dolley Madison’s Wednesday Squeezes
It did not start out to be a major event – but it became the benchmark of Washington society for nearly two decades. Washington 1801: Martha Washington and Abigail Adams, were both in their late fifties when they became First … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, James Madison
Tagged Abigail Adams, American First Ladies, American history, Catherine Allgor, Dolley Madison, Entertaining at the White House, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Dolley Madison, Historian Catherine Allgor, history, James Madison, MArtha Washington, Mrs. Madison, President James Madison, President Thomas Jefferson, Presidential history, Secretary of State James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, White House history
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FIRST DADS: A Book Review
Author Joshua Kendall has whipped up a dandy light-history read! FIRST DADS is filled with stories, tidbits and gossip about our Presidents – and how they stacked up as fathers. Or not. The author begins with an important premise (not … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Recommended Reading
Tagged "First Dads", Fathers in the White House, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, Jack Custis, John Adams, John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Joshua Kendall, President Obama as father, President Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential fathers, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes as father, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt as father, Ulysses S Grant as father, Ulysses S. Grant
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The White House Nellie Weddings
White House Weddings Before Ulysses S. Grant was even born, there had been weddings in the White House. During James Madison’s administration, Dolley Madison’s widowed sister married her second husband, Thomas Todd. Some years later, James Monroe’s daughter Maria Hester … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged Algernon Sartoris, American history, Dolley Madison, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, Ellen Wilson, Ellen Wrenshall Grant, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Family history, Grant son-in-las Sartoris, history, James Madison, James Monroe, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, John Adams II, John Quincy Adams, Julia Grant, Maria Hester Monroe, Nell Wilson McAdoo, Nellie Grant, Nellie Grant Sartoris, President Grant, President U.S. Grant, President Woodrow Wilson, Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Weddings in the White House, White House history, White House weddings, William G.McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson
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Bess Truman’s First Press Conference
Few First Ladies were more reluctant to be in the public eye than Bess Truman. Mrs. Truman becomes FLOTUS Late in the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Bess Truman (1885-1982) received a phone call from her husband. There was a … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Harry S Truman
Tagged American history, Bess Truman, Bess Truman's mother, Chief Justice Harlan Stone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady Bess Truman, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady History, Harry S Truman, Harry Truman becomes President, history, Madge Gates Wallace, Madge Wallace, Mrs. Harry Truman, President Franklin D Roosevelt, President Harry S Truman, Presidential history, Presidential wives, the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, White House history US history
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The Jackson-Hayes-Clinton Connection
Losing a father as a boy is not unusual. Losing a father before you are born is VERY unusual. Posthumous Children Posthumous children, those whose fathers die before the child is born is rare – even in an age when … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford Hayes
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Bill Clinton, Feather Schwartz Foster, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GHW Bush, Hayes Uncle Sardis Birchard, history, Posthumous Presidents, President Andrew Jackson, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, President Hayes, President Jackson, President Rutherford B. Hayes, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Hayes, Sardis Birchard, US history, William Clinton, William J. Clinton
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The Death of Warren Harding
With the possible exception of John F. Kennedy, no president’s death generated more speculation and controversies than that of Warren G. Harding. The President Dies On August 2, 1923, the country was stunned when the news came over the telegraph … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Warren G. Harding
Tagged "Doc" Sawyer, American history, Dr. Charles Sawyer, Dr. Joel T. Boone, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady Florence Harding, First Lady History, Florence Harding, FLorence Kling Harding, Harding's mistress Nan Britton, history, homeopathic doctors, Nan Britton, President Warren Harding, presidential deaths, Presidential history, The death of Warren Harding, The Marion Star, US history, Warren G. Harding, Warren Harding, White House history
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Lincoln’s General’s Wives: A Book Review
The American Civil War created powerful generals with powerful and sometimes peculiar personalities. In a remarkably intelligent and readable quadography, author Candice Shy Hooper has brought to life four interesting(ish) women who were thrust into a spotlight(ish) because of the … Continue reading
Posted in Nifty History People, Recommended Reading
Tagged "Lincoln's Generals' Wives", American Civil War, American history, Candice Shy Hooper, Civil War Wives, Ellen Ewing Sherman, Ellen Marcy McClellan, Ellen McClellan, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George B. McClellan, General Ulysses Grant, General William T. Sherman, George B. McClellan, Jessie Benton Fremont, John C. Fremont, Julia Dent Grant, Julia Grant, Mrs. William T. Sherman, Nelly McClellan, US history, William T. Sherman
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