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Author Archives: Meg Groeling
Book Review: “Gettysburg: Kids Who Did the Impossible”
All I can think of is “What fun to do this book!” Gettysburg: Kids Who Did the Impossible is a children’s book featuring two reasonably adorable children and several other reenactors who have combined forces to tell the stories of the young … Continue reading
“They Call This War a Cloud Over the Land”
Politically, one might think that climate and weather have only become a topic of interest lately. After all, 19th-century science was not very reliable, and a person could not control the weather. Everyone knew that. But could a war affect … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civilian
Tagged Lincoln, stars and planets, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, weather
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“Strew the fair garlands where slumber the dead”
I have always loved ephemera—those bits and pieces of printed paper, originally meant to have only short-term popularity. I particularly like old postcards from the end of the 19thcentury up through the 1920s. Commercial artists like Ellen Clapsaddle and lithographers … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Material Culture, Memory
Tagged Decoration Day, Ellen Clapsaddle, Memorial Day, Tuck and Sons, vintage postcards
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“And over here we have…”
On this day in history, Colonel Elmer Ellsworth walked into a two-star inn-and-boarding house in Alexandria. It was early in the morning, and a man in his nightshirt and pants was the only person awake on the first floor. The … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Monuments, Personalities
Tagged Alexandria, Army of the Potomac, Elmer Ellsworth, VA
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Wah-Who-Eeee! … And The War Came to the Rebels, Part 2
Author Margaret Mitchel wrote her version of the sound of the rebel yell as “Wah-Who-Eeee,” and that was the sound heard throughout the Southern states when Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard opened his well-prepared cannon on shabby little Fort … Continue reading
Huzzah! …And The War Came to the Yankees, Part 1
Despite the messages, threats, and concerns, brave little Fort Sumter held on. The waters were cold, the food was minimal, and information even more scarce than the food. Major Robert Anderson, garrison commander, had moved his group of Army regulars … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Civilian, Common Soldier
Tagged 11th NY Fire Zouaves, 1861, Elmer Ellsworth, Fort Sumter, Northern recruiting, the-war-came-series, Walt Whitman
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Women’s History Month—Every Year!
It may have been 1965 or 66 . . . it was almost summer, and Joyce and I were looking for employment. We had a couple more years in high school and needed to keep our cars on the road, … Continue reading
“Powerful and Determined”: Susie King Taylor and Her Image as Seen by Stephen Restelli
I could not tell she was African-American in looking at the negative. When I scanned it as viewed her as a positive print, chills went through me. This was the most stunning portrait photograph I have ever seen. And I … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Photography, Slavery
Tagged African American photography, black history, black history month, Black images, black-history-2019, civil war photography, daguereotypes, Samuel William Bridgham, slave photography, Stephen Restelli, Susie King Taylor, U. S. Colored Troops, women's studies
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Susie King Taylor: The First African American Army Nurse
“I was born under the slave law in Georgia, in 1848, and was brought up by my grandmother in Savannah.” So begin the memoirs of Civil War nurse Susie King Taylor, a most unusual woman in many ways. She was … Continue reading
