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Thanksgiving at a Civil War Hospital
Thanksgiving during the Civil War wasn’t the extravagant feast we know today. But in 1864, even soldiers recovering in hospitals like Jarvis General in Baltimore experienced the comfort of a holiday meal. The Jarvis U.S. General Hospital was a military hospital...
Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain
Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" in 1865 in response to US President Abraham Lincoln's death. The poem was the most well-liked one written by Whitman during his lifetime and was the first to be included in an anthology after it was published. It is...
Prelude to Gettysburg – The Battle of Hanover
The Battle of Hanover, Pennsylvania was a small skirmish between 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...
Battle of Sterretts Gap
In June 1863, the Confederates Army was advancing up the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania and was led 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....
Laura Talbot Galt – Marching Through Georgia
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 thirteen, a...
President Lincoln’s Call for Volunteers
On April 15, 1861, President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion.
Civil War in Color Series – Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
On April 14, 1865, at the climax of a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., actor John Wilkes Booth entered Abraham Lincoln’s private balcony and shot the president in the back of the head. In the hours and days that followed, Booth’s conspirators would be rounded up and locked in prison. I thought it would be fun to colorize a few of the key players in the assassination and share them with you.
Lincoln Assassination Witness Samuel Seymour
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...