Archive for July, 2008
Next Entries »Jonesboro Dedication in the News
Monday, July 7th, 2008I hear the weekend celebration in Jonesboro went well. In addition to dedicating the new statues at the Lincoln-Douglas debate site, they celebrated the nation’s birthday in style. The event made the local news. Click Here to watch the coverage. While the folks in Jonesboro dedicated their new statues, local historians and newspaper reporters in [...]
Lincoln on Ebay: Photographs
Friday, July 4th, 2008A couple of photographs caught my attention this week on Ebay. The sellers do not provide much information about either of these photographs. I thought we might fill in some of the gaps. The Lincoln photograph was taken on Tuesday, February 9, 1864 by Anthony Berger, the manager of Brady’s Gallery. It should look pretty familiar. This was [...]
Gettysburg: The Superbowl for Civil War Re-Enactors
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Gettysburg is the World Series and Superbowl rolled into one for Civil War re-enactors. An estimated 15,000 “living historians,” clad in wool uniforms and bearing muskets, will converge on the little town in Pennsylvania throughout the week to mark the 145th anniversary of the battle. Forget high gas prices, rain coulds are the only thing organizers are [...]
Gettysburg: 145 Years Later
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008What do you think about when you hear the word Gettysburg? The word is almost synonymous with the war itself. It represents, at least to many of us, the most important battle, the key moment, or the turning point in the American Civil War. Civil War enthusiasts might debate the validity of such statements; for example, Vicksburg was a [...]
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