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The White House New Year’s Day Reception
After two years in New York and ten years in Philadelphia, the capital of the country was moved to Washington at the very end of 1800. The Dismal Days Washington DC was just opening for business in late 1800, after … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Black attendance at White House receptions, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, Herbert Hoover, history, John Adams, Mary Lincoln, Negro attendance at White House receptions, New Year's Day 1863, President Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Jackson, PResident George Washington, President Herbert Hoover, President John Adams, President Theodore Roosevelt, President Thomas Jefferson, Presidential history, Presidential open houses, The Emancipation Proclamation, The last white House New Year's Day reception, the White House New Year's Day receptions, Thomas Jefferson, US history, Washington DC history, White House history, White House public receptions
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Roosevelt and Remington: The Cowboy and the Sculptor
Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely cowboy. Frederic Remington was an unlikely sculptor of the West. Roosevelt the Cowboy Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)was a wealthy New Yorker by birth and upbringing. A nearsighted and asthmatic child, he overcame much of his frailty … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Broncho Buster", American history, Century Magazine, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Feather Schwartz Foster, Frederic Remington, Frederic Remington sculptor, Frederic Remington western artist, history, Presidential history, Remington's Broncho Buster, Sagamore Hill, The Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt in the Dakotas, Theodore Roosevelt's childhood, TR, TR and the Rough Riders, TR in the Dakotas
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Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Davis: A Healing Friendship
Two Civil war icons, one North, one South, finally met in old age, and became friends. Varina Davis: The Confederate Queen Varina Davis (1826-1905) first appeared on a national stage when she was eighteen and recently married to Congressional widower … Continue reading
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Tagged "Grant's Memoirs", American history, Civil War history, Confederate First Lady Varina Davis, Confederate history, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Julia Grant, General Ulysses S. Grant, history, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Pulitzer, Julia Grant, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Ulysses S Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Varina Davis, White House history
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U.S. Grant: The Shiloh Tree HQ
Army Generals in the Civil War usually commandeered the best houses in the area for their Headquarters. Pittsburg Landing, TN Pittsburg Landing, TN was a small village on the Tennessee River. Control of that river, which flowed into the Mississippi, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, American history, Battle of Shiloh, Civil War history, Feather Schwartz Foster, Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson, General A.S. Johnston, General Albert Sidney Johnston, General Don Carlos Buell, General Grant, General Grant and General Sherman, General Sherman, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William T. Sherman, history, Pittsburg Landing TN, Sam Grant and Cump Sherman, The oak tree at Shiloh, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, William Tecumseh Sherman
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Martha Washington’s White House
Martha Washington died in early 1802. She had never set foot in what is known today as the White House in Washington, DC. Martha’s White House in New Kent County Martha Dandridge (1731-1802) was only seventeen when she married Daniel … Continue reading
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Tagged "Rooney" Lee, Amerncan history, Arlington House, Civil War history, Daniel Parke Custis, Feather Schwartz Foster, G.W. Custis, General George B. McClellan, General George McClellan, George Washington, George Washington Parke Custis, history, Jack Custis Washington, Martha Custis, Martha Dandridge Custis, MArtha Washington, Mary Anne Custis, Mary Custis Lee, New Kent County VA, Robert E. Lee, Robert E. Lee's son "Rooney", The New Kent white House, The Peninsula Campaign, US history
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The Lincolns and the Actors
Everyone knows about Abraham Lincoln’s brief run-in with John Wilkes Booth, but other Lincolns had life and death incidents involving theater folks. Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth John Wilkes Booth came from a well regarded family of dramatic actors. His … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American actor Edwin Booth, American history, Edwin Booth, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, French Actress Sarah Bernhardt, history, John Wilkes Booth, Mary Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln, President Lincoln, Presidential families, Robert Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln, Sarah Bernhardt, The Lincoln assassination, The Widow Lincoln, US history
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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
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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
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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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