Category Archives: 1865

Sultana Descendants to hold reunion this weekend

Posted on April 28, 2011 by skydancer506

Courtesy of Sultana Remembered Reunion 2011 This year’s annual Sultana Reunion is in Mansfield, Ohio April 29-30! If you haven’t done so already, now is the time to make your reservations at the Holiday Inn by calling (419)525-6000 for Friday, … Continue reading →

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A Soldier’s Story [Sultana Remembered]

Posted on April 28, 2011 by skydancer506

A new website was launched last month called Sultana Remembered by the Association of Sultana Descendants and Friends. This is one of their stories. “A Soldier’s Story” – from the Sultana In April of this year, seventy-five members of the … Continue reading →

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Lincoln Assassination Books

Posted on April 27, 2011 by skydancer506

Here are the four best books for details on the Lincoln Assassination. American Brutus, by Michael W. Kauffman It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, … Continue reading →

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On this date in 1865: Tragedy on the Mississippi - Sultana explodes, thousands die

Posted on April 27, 2011 by skydancer506

On 27 April 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded and sank in the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, causing the greatest marine disaster in U.S. history. Approximately 1,700 people, mostly discharged Union soldiers, lost their lives on a frigid spring night … Continue reading →

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Mary Eugenia Surratt (1823-1865)

Posted on April 27, 2011 by skydancer506

Convicted Lincoln assassination conspirator Mary Eugenia Jenkins was born in Maryland in 1823. As an adolescent she attended a Catholic seminary for girls in Virginia, but at sixteen she married John Surratt, at least ten years her senior, and in … Continue reading →

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On this day: April 26, 1865 - JOHN WILKES BOOTH KILLED!

Posted on April 26, 2011 by skydancer506

The Account of the Officer in Charge On April 24, 1865, Lieutenant Edward Doherty sits on a bench across from the White House conversing with another officer. The arrival of a messenger interrupts the conversation. The messenger carries orders directing … Continue reading →

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On this date: April 24, 1865 - Hancock issues proclamation

Posted on April 26, 2011 by skydancer506

On this date, 146 years ago - Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock ordered the following handbills printed and distributed to free blacks in the communities of Virginia and Maryland along the Potomac River. John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, and … Continue reading →

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Colonel Frederick A. Aiken biography

Posted on April 26, 2011 by skydancer506

Sarah Olivia WESTON was born in West Randolph, Orange, Vermont. Educated at home, chiefly under private tuition. She continued her studies in Boston, devoting her attention principally to the classics and history, under the direction of several noted professors at Cambridge, she being the … Continue reading →

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‘The Conspirator’ takes in $7 million in ten days

Posted on April 24, 2011 by skydancer506

Here are the latest numbers for the first ten days of ‘The Conspirator’ courtesy of the-numbers.com. The film had a budget of $25 million and has now taken in just under $7 million in ten days at the box office. … Continue reading →

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Historical Inaccuracies in ‘The Conspirator’

Posted on April 23, 2011 by skydancer506

by Jeffrey S. Williams Okay, so we know that the James Solomon/Robert Redford film The Conspirator, now entering its second full weekend, has some inaccuracies to it. What are they? Here are a few obvious ones that I remember from … Continue reading →

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