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Tag Archives: Western Sanitary Commission
Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington D.C.
An important monument of President Abraham Lincoln sits in Lincoln Park, a park in the Capitol Hill section of Washington, D.C. This statue is seen by thousands of people each day – the Emancipation Memorial. I wonder about how many … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Charlotte Scott, Civil Rights Movement, Emancipation Memorial, Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass, freedmen, Freedmen's Memorial, historic memorials, historical controversy, John Mercer Langston, Kirk Savage, Lincoln's memory, markers-and-monuments-17, Mary McLeod Bethune, Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Ball, Western Sanitary Commission
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“Loyal Cows and Hens!”
One of the really delightful things about doing research is finding little nuggets of information that have been hidden for years. I found this, and thought I’d share it.
