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Maryland seeks to buy 14 acres of land near South Mountain Civil War battlefield for $55,600
MIDDLETOWN, Md. (AP) — A Department of Natural Resources official says the state of Maryland is seeking to buy some land near the South Mountain Civil War battlefield. John Braskey told The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown newspaper on Tuesday that the … Continue reading
Posted in 1862, Maryland, Battlefield Preservation
Tagged 1862, Abraham Lincoln, acquisition, Andrew Schotz, Battle of Antietam, battlefield land, Central Maryland Heritage League, Confederate, Department of Natural Resources, easement, Emancipation Proclamation, Federal, Frederick County, Hagerstown, John Braskey, Mahaffey Woods, Maryland, Preservation, real estate, Reno Monument, September 14, South Mountain, State Board of Public Works, Terry Baker, Washington County, Wise South Field
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National Park Service Director Jarvis Addresses The Value and Importance Of Maintaining Civil War Sites
Submitted by Jon Jarvis on July 25, 2011 - National Parks Traveler Editor’s note: As the National Park Service last week commemorated the start of the Civil War 150 years ago, Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis addressed an audience at the Manassas National Battlefield and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, American Revolution, Antietam, Appomattox, battlefield, Chancellorsville, Civil War, District of Columbia, Dred Scott, Founding Fathers, Gettysburg, Jonathan Jarvis, LeRoy Pope Walker, Manassas, National Park Service, North, Quaker Guns, Robert E. Lee, Shelby Foote, Shiloh, Slavery, South, Stonewall, Supreme Court, Thomas J. Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Vicksburg, Virginia
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Steamboat SULTANA biographical information
The following information is from Way’s Packet Directory 1848-1994 compiled by Frederick Way Jr. The SULTANA is vessel number 5216 in the directory. SULTANA SW p wh b. Cincinnati, Oh., 660 tons. 260×42 (39 ft. floor) x 7. Engines, 25′s … Continue reading
Posted in 1865, Casualties, Sultana
Tagged 1865, Abraham Lincoln, April, Arkansas, Bill Judd, Cincinnati, Frederick Way, Helena, J. Cass Mason, John Litherbury, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassination, Memphis, New Orleans, Northern Belle, Northern Light, prisoners, Steamboat, Sultana, Tennessee, troops
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This Week in the Civil War - Week of June 12, 2011
1861 - A telegraphed dispatch via The Associated Press reports more U.S. army troops, backed by cavalry, are headed to Washington as Lincoln masses his forces. There are occasional sightings of Confederate soldiers on the Virginia side of the Potomac … Continue reading
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Tagged 1861, Abraham Lincoln, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Fairfax Courthouse, Frederick, Harpers Ferry, Maryland, Potomac, Sesquicentennial, Virginia
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The Lincoln Assassination: New research unravels old myths
A historiography by Jeffrey S. Williams The Northern States were celebrating the end of the Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865. When the president … Continue reading
The Surprising Global Reach of Lincoln
The Great Emancipator has been invoked by activists and idealists of every stripe, on every continent By RICHARD CARWARDINE, Wall Street Journal With the arrival last month of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, Americans have been … Continue reading
Rare Aiken Letter for sale
Democrat attorney encouraged John C. Fremont to challenge Lincoln in 1864 election A rare 1864 letter by Frederick Aiken, the attorney who later represented Mary Surratt in her Lincoln Assassination conspiracy trial, is up for sale by Seth Kaller Historic … Continue reading
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Tagged 1864, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Aiken, John C. Fremont, letters, Presidential Campaign, Seth Kaller
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On this date in 1861: Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus
Today’s Highlight in History: (AP) On April 27, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln, citing public safety concerns amid the Civil War, suspended the writ of habeas corpus in an area between Philadelphia and Washington. (Lincoln later lifted the order, but the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Habeas Corpus, Sesquicentennial
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Mary Eugenia Surratt (1823-1865)
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
