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,...
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...
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