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Bullets Met at Gettysburg
On the sixth anniversary of Day 1 of the Battle of Gettysburg a monument in the National Cemetery on the battlefield was dedicated. The Soldiers’ National Monument hadn’t been quite completed, but a reported 15,000 people showed up for the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Battle Monuments, Battlefields, Civil War Cemeteries, Monuments and Statues, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Gettysburg, Bayard Taylor, Carrara marble, Civil War Monuments, George Gordon Meade, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Henry Ward Beecher, James Goodwin Batterson, Oliver Hazard Perry Morton, Theodore R. Davis
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“Summer of Peace”
150 years ago this week a National Peace Jubilee was held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Coliseum, a temporary structure built especially for the Jubilee. In its May 22, 1869 issue Harper’s Weekly anticipated the big event: THE NATIONAL PEACE … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Boston, Carl Zerahn, Eben Tourjée, National Peace Jubilee, National Peace Jubilee 1869, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Sri Swami Satchidananda, Susan J. Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodstock 1969
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prize fliers
World War I was disruptive, and while it was a boon to aviation, it caused the postponement of an aerial competition. In 1913 the Daily Mail offered a prize of £10,000 to “the aviator who shall first cross the Atlantic … Continue reading
more trans in transportation
Our society seems to like historical anniversaries , so I wondered if May 1919 headlines in The New York Times would mention the 50th anniversary of the completion of the United States’ First Transcontinental Railroad. I searched in vain. Certainly … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, Technology, World War I
Tagged Albert Cushing Read, Douglas MacArthur, Eddie Rickenbacker, First Transatlantic Flight, Harry George Hawker, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Naval Air Station Rockaway, Orville Wright, RMS Lusitania, Rudolf W. Schroeder, The Wright Brothers, Transatlantic flight, Treaty of Versailles
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divergent decoration
150 years ago today a large procession traveled from Manhattan to Brooklyn to honor the memory and decorate the graves of thousands of soldiers who died during the American Civil War. From the June 19, 1869 issue of Harper’s Weekly: … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Veterans
Tagged 75th New York Infantry Regiment, Alexander Shaler, Battle of Fort Bisland, Cypress Hills Cemetery, Daniel Sickles, Edward B. Lansing, Grand Army of the Republic, Memorial (Decoration) Day, orphans, Sabbatarianism, Union Home at Carmansville, Union Square (New York City), war widows and orphans
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battle hymns
In its June 1, 1919 issue the New York Tribune commemorated the birth centenaries of two well-known Civil War-era Americans. ______________________________ According to Wikipedia, Julia Ward Howe was a poet, author, abolitionist, and advocate for women’s suffrage: She was inspired … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Years Ago, American Culture, American Society, Monuments and Statues, World War I
Tagged 23rd New York Volunteer Cavalry, Abraham Lincoln, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Edith Cavell, Julia Ward Howe, Memorial (Decoration) Day, Walt Whitman
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At the junction …
… Promontory junction North and South America had been a big impediment to free-flowing and relatively quick world trade. Even though way back in 1513 an expedition led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered how near the Atlantic and Pacific … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Postbellum Society, Technology
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Asa Whitney, Butterfield Overland Mail, California, Donner Pass, First Transcontinental Railroad, George Pullman, Jefferson Davis, Leland Stanford, Native Americans, Promontory Point Utah, Pullman Car Company, Rev. Dr. Francis Vinton, Thomas Hart Benton (Missouri politician)
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Hayti bound
From the May 1, 1869 issue of Harper’s Weekly: EBENEZER D. BASSETT. Very fitly a colored man of the highest eminence has been appointed Minister from this country to Hayti. Mr. BASSETT, whose portrait we give on page 285, is … Continue reading
good question
Way back in its October 24, 1868 issue Harper’s Weekly seemed a bit miffed by a letter from Georgia, which asked a question: if universal suffrage for black men is such a good thing, why doesn’t the North adopt it? … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged black suffrage, Democratic-Republican Party, Erastus Root, Federalist Party, Fifteenth Amendment to the U S Constitution, James Kent, New York State, Reconstruction, state constitutions, suffrage, universal suffrage, voting rights
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feeding frenzy
You could say it’s a (very brief) tale of five Union generals. When Ulysses S. Grant became President of the United States in March 1869 he promoted his friend William T. Sherman to be the Commanding General of the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, Aftermath, Postbellum Society
Tagged American Indians, Ely Samuel Parker, George Armstrong Custer, Indian War, James Longstreet, John McAllister Schofield, Native Americans, Philip Sheridan, robert e, Robert E. Lee, Surrender at Appomattox, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman
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