by Robert Plumb | May 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Most women who actively supported the Union cause during the Civil War used the pen as their “weapon” of choice. One notable exception to this was Harriet Tubman. She took on the role as an armed participant in a Union raid on a site deep in Confederate territory in...
by Robert Plumb | Apr 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
Were the actual facts not so ghastly and heart wrenching, LeRoy Pope Walker’s comments just prior to the start of the Civil War would be laughable: “All the blood spilled as a result of the secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.” Walker, an Alabama state...
by Robert Plumb | Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
“When the Civil War ended, woman was at least fifty years in advance of the normal position which confirmed peace would have assigned her.” Clara Barton The seed for women’s suffrage was planted in the small upstate New York town of Seneca Falls thirteen years prior...
by Robert Plumb | Feb 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Washington City, as the District of Columbia was commonly referred to in the mid-nineteenth century, was frequently under threat during the Civil War. The two Battles of Bull Run (Manassas) in July 1861 and August of the following year caused citizens and Union...
by Robert Plumb | Jan 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Despite the devastating impact the Civil War had on those who participated in it, when the war was over veterans were eager to find a vehicle for retaining the camaraderie created during the conflict. In April 1866 all Union veterans who served in the Union Army,...
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