by beeghleytech | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog
The Death of Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Lincoln passed away on July 16, 1882, at the home of her sister Elizabeth in Springfield, IL. At her funeral, Reverend Reed eloquently spoke of two trees that had grown so close together that their roots had become intertwined. When...
by beeghleytech | Jul 7, 2018 | Blog
The Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators On July 7, 1865, four conspirators of the Lincoln assassination, Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, were hanged just after 1:30 p.m. on a very hot day in the prison yard of the Old Arsenal...
by TeachCivilWar | Jun 30, 2018 | Blog, Primary Sources
After some minor skirmishes, Major General John Buford is convinced that the Confederates are near the small town of Cashtown and that they will be marching on Gettysburg the next day. Buford sends a message to Gen. John Reynolds to come up quickly while he holds with...
by TeachCivilWar | Jun 30, 2018 | Blog
The Battle of Hanover, Pennsylvania was a small skirmish among Union and Confederate cavalry that had a significant impact on the Gettysburg Campaign by delaying Confederate General JEB Stuart. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick’s division of Union cavalry dashes north to...
by TeachCivilWar | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog
In June 1863, the Confederates Army was advancing up the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania and was lead by a cavalry brigade under General Albert G. Jenkins. Jenkins and his men arrived in Carlisle on June 27, then continued east toward the town of Mechanicsburg....
by beeghleytech | May 13, 2018 | Blog, Famous People
The following is taken from the Confederate Veteran (1902): A strange report comes from a public school in Louisville. It is that “Marching through Georgia” is sung in school there. A special in the Atlanta Constitution states that Laura Talbot Galt, aged...
by beeghleytech | Apr 15, 2018 | Blog
A Call to Arms! – President Lincoln’s Call for 75,000 Volunteers On April 15, 1861, President Lincoln issued the following proclamation: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been, for some time...
by TeachCivilWar | Apr 14, 2018 | Blog, Famous People
On April 14, 1865, at the climax of a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.,well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth entered Abraham Lincoln’s private balcony and shot the president in the back of the head. After struggling with...
by beeghleytech | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog, Famous People
Samuel J. Seymour was present at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, the night that President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Samuel J. Seymour was born on March 28th, 1860, in Maryland, United States. He was five years old when his father took him on a...
by beeghleytech | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog
Walt Whitman wrote a stirring poem titled “Pensive On Her Dead Grazing” within days of the surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia. “Pensive on her dead gazing I...
