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02/09/2022

The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. For enslaved people in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery

11/29/2021

During the Civil War, more Confederate soldiers died at Chicago’s Camp Douglas than on any battlefield

10/12/2021

GENERAL LEE PASSES AFTER SUFFERING A STROKE
On this day in 1870, Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Virginia about 5 and 1/2 years after this photograph was taken by M.B. Brady cameramen on the back porch of Lee's Richmond home (April 16, 1865). Lee posed with his son George Washington Custis Lee (left) and Walter Taylor.

Lee’s reported last words were, “Tell Hill he must come up!” “Strike the tent!” However, his daughter at the bedside only recalled her father “struggling” with “long, hard breathes,” and “in a moment he was dead.”

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By Craig Heberton IV

10/12/2021

The way Wrightsville Borough Council member Don Bair sees it, Civil War and history buffs could start a whole week of vacation in the York County town on the Susquehanna

09/17/2021

Jackson, Johnston and conflicting interests The fate of strategic Harpers Ferry hung on the leadership styles of two Southern commanders Ten weeks before

09/15/2021

Stonewall Jackson at Harpers Ferry
September 15, 1862
Artwork by Mort Kunstler

It had been an eventful day for the dusty, worn-looking horsemen who rode into the quiet Virginia town of Harpers Ferry. Only hours before, the boom of artillery had reverberated off the stone and brick walls, echoing in the valleys of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. Now, the streets were quiet, except for the scuffling feet of curious gray soldiers who wandered the historic town. Dim lights glowed from a few windows, signaling a cautious return to life. The general and his staff studied the shadows in façades of the buildings, overshadowed by Maryland Heights beyond. The general's face was a familiar one to many, and this was the scene of his earliest command – "Stonewall" Jackson had returned to Harpers Ferry.

A year prior to this warm September evening, Jackson's first command was located here. Now, he had returned to encircle it, forcing its 12,500 man garrison to surrender. It was a strategic high point of Robert E. Lee's campaign into Maryland. What were Jackson's thoughts as he rode along Shenadoah Street that evening? Was he remembering his first command, or the victory of the day? More than likely, the plan for the following day's march rolled through his head. Lee, to the north, was waiting for "Stonewall," while facing the bulk of McClellan's Union army.

There was little time to rest on his laurels. Jackson was desperately needed in Maryland. He would march northward at dawn toward Sharpsburg, and a rendezvous along the banks of the Antietam.

08/30/2021

For James A. Garfield, there was never any doubt that slavery was the root cause of the Civil War. We often quote the letter he wrote just two days after the attack on Fort Sumter in which he wrote: "The war will soon assume the shape of Slavery and Freedom. The world will so understand it, and I believe the final outcome will redound to the good of humanity." Soon after writing this letter, Garfield volunteered his services to the state of Ohio and the Union Army, eventually rising to the rank of Major General.

Time did not soften or change his opinion about the war's cause. On August 28, 1879, Congressman Garfield attended a reunion of Ohio Civil War veterans in Steubenville. From his diary that day:

"Not less than 15,000 people assembled...Gen. [Thomas] Ewing read a long address, devoted wholly to the technichs [sic] of soldiering, but not a word in reference to the cause for which our soldiers fought. It was evidently so written as to be equally welcome to Blue and Gray-and equally tasteless to both. It seemed to me a stupid avoidance of all the meaning and spirit of the war. When I was called the old soldier spirit greeted me with the greatest enthusiasm. I took for the key of my speech the thought that wild beasts fight, but do not make war nor hold reunions in memory of their combats. Men hold reunions in memory of the cause they defended, etc. I have never been received with more applause."

Image: Brigadier General James A. Garfield, ca. 1862-63. (Fine Art America)

08/22/2021

August 20, 1866: the End of the Civil War

Robert E. Lee famously surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. But other armies and smaller armed Confederate forces were scattered all around the country. One by one, they were located, captured, and paroled in the summer of 1865. Ships bearing the Confederate standard still roamed the oceans until November.

In April of 1866, a full year after Lee’s surrender in Virginia, President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation announcing that the state of war was over in all of the former so-called Confederate states except Texas. After about five more months, President Johnson was confident that federal control was secure in Texas too, and he issued his proclamation of August 20, 1866, stating: “I… hereby proclaim… that the said insurrection is at an end and that peace, order, tranquillity [sic], and civil authority now exist in and throughout the whole of the United States of America.”

Congress followed suit by declaring, through legislation, that the Civil War ended on August 20, 1866, for the purpose of calculating military pay entitlements. And because certain legal property claims related to the war had a two-year statute of limitations, the United States Supreme Court fixed the August 20 date for calculating deadlines. So if anyone asks you when the Civil War really ended, you’ll know that all three branches of government agree: August 20, 1866.

[Photo source: National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/spring/cw-surrenders.html]

08/22/2021

in 1863, Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerilla group led by William Quantrill, raided the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas. Much of the town was destroyed.

08/22/2021

Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to adulthood, lived to age 82. His last public appearance was at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on May 30, 1922. He attended alongside Civil War veterans, President Warren G. Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge. This incredible photograph captures Robert Lincoln at the dedication.

Our fall season has two special connections to the Lincoln Memorial. On Friday, September 10 at 6:00 p.m. you can join us at the Memorial for "Come From Away: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial." In October, we return to our historic stage with "My Lord, What a Night," which tells the story of the friendship between Marian Anderson and Albert Einstein in the lead up to Anderson's historic Lincoln Memorial concert.

Photograph courtesy of The Library of Congress cph 3a52191.

08/11/2021

The US Navy was essential to victory in the Civil War, but did not suffer nearly as much combat or casualties as the army. Why was that?

07/25/2021

An aid station during the Civil War.

Assistant surgeons and hospital stewards provided first aid near the battlefield in stations like this. They were usually placed a few hundred yards from the front lines in an area with adequate cover. At aid stations, tourniquets were applied, bleeding controlled, medication administered. The medical personnel prepared the wounded to be moved.

Patients were then moved to larger field hospitals established farther from the front lines for surgery and other more advanced medical care.

Learn more about this system and how the Civil War forever changed battlefield medicine by visiting the National Museum of Civil War Medicine!

(Sketch: Winslow Homer's "Surgeon at Work," from May 17, 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly)

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