“John McDonald, Esq., “Chairman Pasadena Memorial Statue Committee: “Dear Sir: As per your instructions received from H. H. Kitson, sculptor, Boston, Mass., we have this Read More »
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Portrait of an Artist: How Research Happens (Part 1 of 2)
Several people have asked me how historical research is done, or other questions about the process of learning about the men and women featured in Read More »
The Last Reunion – Gettysburg 1938
In central Pennsylvania in early July it’s either as hot as the devil’s front porch or raining barrels, with thunder and lightning to boot. If Read More »
The Fife and the Drum
“The John F. Godfrey Post, G.A.R.’s “Drummer Boys of ‘61 ” met much applause. “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” was the song theme, and on Read More »
E.S. Frost: Hooked Rugs and Photography
E.S. Frost spent his time in the Civil War in the 1st Maine Cavalry. He survived the bullets that flew around him at various major Read More »
John Ransom: An Organized Man
John Ransom was an organized taker of notes as a young man. That got him his military assignment. At the age of twenty, he was Read More »
The Singing Recruiter: James Gowdy Clark
From “Children of the Battlefield” by James Gowdy Clark, 1864: Upon the field of Gettysburg The summer was high, When freedom met her haughty foe, Read More »
Memorial Day: A Civil War Holiday
In May of 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina, the African American community decorated the graves of Union soldiers who had died while in a Confederate Read More »
The Reverend Colonel Higgins
Reverend David J. Higgins was already in his forties by the time the Civil War began and was an established minister. He decided that it Read More »
A Closer Look at Thaddeus Lowe
Civil War balloonist Thaddeus Lowe was born on August 20, 1832 in Jefferson, New Hampshire. His full name was Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, and with Read More »
