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Tag Archives: Clara Barton
ECW Weekender: Free Admission at Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum
In the Washington D.C. area and looking of a unique site with Civil War history? That’s free for March 2020 to celebrate Women’s History Month? Plan a trip to the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum! The important … Continue reading →
Book Review: “Hymns of the Republic”
When the topic of the Civil War’s turning points come up, the traditional answers have always included the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, or Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Recently, though, historians have advanced the idea of 1864 as … Continue reading →
ECW Weekender: In Lincoln’s Footsteps at Point of Rocks
On March 27, 1865, President Lincoln made a trip to Point of Rocks, on the Appomattox River. The day trip, which was just part of his visit to the war lines, may have started out as a compassionate mission to … Continue reading →
Posted in ECW Weekender, Lincoln, Medical
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, ECW Weekender, Field Hospital, Point of Rocks, Point of Rocks Hospital, Weekender
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Reminder: March is Women’s History Month!
Keeping with our blog tradition, ECW takes this opportunity to highlight voices of modern women working in the history field and biographies or accounts about women from the Civil War era. In the coming weeks, you’ll occasionally find articles by … Continue reading →
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Tagged Clara Barton, quotes, Women's History Month, Women's History Month 2019, women's studies
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“The Women Who Went To The Field”
In 1892, Clara Barton shared a poem she had written about women during the Civil War when she spoke at a meeting of the National Woman’s Relief Corps. She paid tribute to the women who came alongside the soldiers and … Continue reading →
My Favorite Historical Person: Private Dorence Atwater
Three flights of stairs! Wooden, rickety stairs! And who knew how successful he would be at the end of them, anyway? Recently released from Andersonville prison, returning home weighing in the neighborhood of ninety pounds, young Dorence Atwater climbed up … Continue reading →
The Clara Barton Sessions
So a musician walks into the Clara Barton Missing Soldier Museum and says . . . “What a great performance space!” If Miss Barton’s ghost was there, I bet she was surprised, but eventually, I am pretty sure she was … Continue reading →
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Civil War in Pop Culture, Civilian, ECW Weekender, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Personalities, Preservation, Upcoming Events
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Tagged Civil War medical Museum, Clara Barton, Clara Barton Sessions, David Price, Jonny Grave, Kickstarter, Miss Barton, Missing Soldiers, Missing Soldiers Office, music, performance
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