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Category Archives: American Civil War
The Booths: Collateral Damage
The Booth Brothers While Junius Brutus Booth Sr., the patriarch of the illustrious acting family had long been dead, three of his sons reached genuine stardom in the days preceding the Lincoln assassination. Junius Brutus, Jr. (the eldest) was considerably … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American actor Edwin Booth, American history, Asia Booth Clarke, Assassin John Wilkes Booth, Booth family of Shakespearean actors, Edwin Booth, Feather Schwartz Foster, history, John Wilkes Booth, John Wilkes Booth's brother Edwin, John Wilkes Booth's brother Junius Brutus, John Wilkes Booth's brother-in-law John Clarke, John Wilkes Booth's mother Mary Ann, John Wilkes Booth's sister Asia, Junius Brutus Booth, Junius Brutus Booth Jr, Lincoln's Assassination, Mary Ann Holmes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln, presidential assassin, Presidential history, Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, The assassination of Lincoln, US history
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The Epiphany of Edwin M. Stanton
Stanton: The Basics Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-69), was Ohio born and raised, the son of a middle class physician and his wife. His father died when Edwin was only thirteen, leaving the family nearly destitute. Plagued by severe asthma, he … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, James Buchanan, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Edwin Stanton, Feather Schwartz Foster, Gideon Welles, history, Pennsylvania Boss Simon Cameron, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, the character of Edwin Stanton, the early association of Stanton and Lincoln, The ironclad Monitor, US history, White House history
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Abraham Lincoln and the Christmas Turkey
All the Lincolns were very fond of animals. The Lincoln Family Pets In the mid-1850s, the Lincoln Family of Springfield, IL had a dog named Fido. He was likely what people would call a mutt, or a mixed breed, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, history, Lincoln pets, Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, Sarah Josepha Hale, Sarah Josepha Hale sparks federal Thanksgiving, Tad Lincoln, Tad Lincoln's speech defect, US history, White House history, White House pets
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Edward Porter Alexander. Soldier. Engineer. Gettysburg.
EPA: The Young and Handsome Edward Porter Alexander wanted to be a soldier from early youth. His well-to-do father, a successful Georgia planter, wanted him to be an engineer. When a family friend advised the senior Alexander that a West … Continue reading
Posted in American Civil War, Grover Cleveland, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Civil War history, Edward Porter Alexander, Feather Schwartz Foster, former President Grover Cleveland, General Edward Porter Alexander, General James Longstreet, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Robert E. Lee, history, Porter Alexander, the battle of Gettysburg, US Civil War, US history
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Mother Bickerdyke: Civil War Ranking Nurse
Right after the Civil War, there was a huge parade in Washington, DC. Leading the Soldiers On May 23, 1865, as the intense mourning over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln began to slowly ebb, the newly discharged Army of … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, American history, ”Mother” Bickerdyke, Civil War field hospitals, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William T. Sherman, history, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Mary Bickerdyke, Medicine in the Civil War, Nursing during the Civil War, The Civil War, The Sanitary Commission, U S Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, William T. Sherman
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General Grant’s No-Exchange Order
Hard to Believe, But… After millenniums of savage butchery, more “civilized” armies faced each other on the most favorable empty grounds they could find and they became battlefields, far from villages and towns and private citizens. If a belligerent was … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Civil War history, Civil War prisoners of war, CSA General Simon Buckner, Feather Schwartz Foster, Ft. Pillow, General Cornwallis, General Grant, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, General Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington at Yorktown, history, Presidential history, Simon Bolivar Buckner, The battle of Milikens Bend, The battle of Port Hudson, The Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Grant at Vicksburg, US Civil War, US history
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Civil War Grub: Feeding Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
“An army travels on its belly.” – Napoleon Bonaparte First…Some Numbers and Perspectives Sometimes it is difficult to comprehend plain-old numbers. Like …more than 1,000,000 Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War – and more than 600,000 Rebels. Jiggling … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcoholism among Civil War soldiers, American Civil War, American Civil War history, American history, Civil War supply lines, Coffee drinking during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers in camp, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William T. Sherman, Hardtack, history, Raids on Civil War supply lines, The Sanitary Commission, The US census of 1860, Union soldiers in camp, US history, What Civil War soldiers ate and drank
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Ida McKinley’s Slippers
Poor Ida McKinley Ida Saxton McKinley (1848 – 1908) was the pretty, wealthy and privileged daughter of a well-to-do Canton, Ohio businessman/banker. At twenty-three, she married young attorney William McKinley, formerly a brevet-major in the Civil War. His practice was … Continue reading
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Grant, Grant, The Tanner’s Son…
Held his nose and away he run… Jesse Grant, Tanner Jesse Root Grant (1794-1873) was Pennsylvania-born, but migrated to southern Ohio as a small child. He had a decent education for his time and station in life, but possessed a … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Early life of U.S. Grant, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Ulysses S. Grant, Grant in Galena IL, Grant in Mexican War, Grant in St. Louis, Grant's experiences at tannery, Hannah Grant, Hannah Simpson Grant, history, Jesse Grant, Jesse Root Grant, Julia and Ulysses S. Grant, Presidential history, U.S. Grant at West Point, U.S. Grant's family, US history, White House history
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