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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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Eleanor Roosevelt’s Road to Val-Kill
Eleanor Roosevelt was nearly forty before she had a life, and place of her own. FDR, Eleanor and Polio The marriage between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, fifth cousins by birth, had never been a joyful one. Their personalities were … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt's cottage at Val-Kill, FDR, FDR advisor Louis Howe, FDR and polio, FDR's mother Sara Delano, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, history American History, Hyde Park NY, Louis Howe, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sara Delano Roosevelt, The Hyde Park estate of FDR, US history, Val-Kill, 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
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, American Civil War, Nifty History People, Ulysses S. Grant
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
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, George Washington, Nifty History People
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
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, Nifty History People
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
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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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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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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