by Robert Plumb | Jan 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
In addition to the exhausting forced marches that Civil War soldiers undertook as they pursued or were pursued by their enemies, the soldiers’ diets during these marches were equally onerous. More often than not, soldiers in both armies subsisted on hardtack while in...
by Robert Plumb | Dec 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
George P. McClelland served with the 155th Pennsylvania Infantry, Union Army of the Potomac, from August 1862 to June 1865. He spent three Christmases in the field with his unit and wrote home to his sister Lizzie to report on his condition and to wish her the best...
by Robert Plumb | Nov 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Now the purpose is to entreat President Lincoln to put forth his Proclamation, appointing the last Thursday in November as the National Thanksgiving for all these classes of people who are under the National Government particularly …thus by the noble example and...
by Robert Plumb | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
On a crisp autumn day in mid-November 1863, Abraham Lincoln stepped off a train he had taken from Washington City to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where a turning point battle had been fought just four and a half months earlier. Lincoln came to dedicate a new soldier’s...
by Robert Plumb | Oct 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Harriet Tubman movie, directed by Kasi Lemmons and released in November 2019, is a powerful film that does justice to Tubman’s story of compassion for enslaved people and her unrelenting drive to guide them to freedom in the north. There are a few scenes of...
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