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...
by Robert Plumb | Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
To be guided by Ed Bearss on a battlefield tour was an experience no participant could ever forget. Walking at a pace that would exhaust a young man or woman, let alone as a septuagenarian tour leader, Ed led us through history with his booming, parade ground voice. ...
by Robert Plumb | Sep 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
One-hundred and fifty-eight years ago on September 17, a battle that has been called the bloodiest single day in American history was fought on Maryland farmland adjacent to a small creek from which the battle took its name: Antietam. More American soldiers died in...
by Robert Plumb | Sep 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Forty-two-year old Julia Ward Howe, mother of six, asked to accompany her physician husband to Washington, DC in November of 1861 so she could witness the marshalling of troops in the capital city. While Doctor Samuel Gridley Howe was attending to business as a...
by Robert Plumb | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ask Civil War enthusiasts about the term “The Blue and the Gray” and most will respond: “Those are the colors of the uniforms men wore during the Civil War; the Union wore blue and the Confederates wore gray.” The answer is more complex. Union and Confederate armies...
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