Harriet Tubman was a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to fighting for the freedom and rights of black people in America. Born into slavery in Maryland on March 6, 1820, she escaped slavery in 1849 and went on to become a leading abolitionist, suffragist, and...
Emily Todd was Mary Todd Lincoln’s half-sister. In 1856 she married Benjamin Helm, later to become a Confederate general. After Helm’s death in 1863 Emily Helm passed through Union Lines to visit her sister in the White House. This caused great...
In late June 1863, Sallie Myers was a school teacher who had just turned 21. She was on summer vacation when Confederate forces invaded her hometown of Gettysburg and changed her life forever. She wrote in her diary that “on June 26 they came, spent...
[powerpress] Thanks for staying subscribed to my podcast and I hope you enjoy listening. In this episode I discuss a recent trip that my daughter Sarah and I made to the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. During this visit, we had the opportunity to...
Hi, Here is another acrostic poem. This time it is about Julia Grant, the wife of the 18th President Ulysses S. Grant. Julia Grant was born at White House Plantation in St. Louis, Missouri U. S. Grant proposed to her several times times before she said yes Lonely...
