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Temporary Insanity
What’s the connection between “The Star Spangled Banner”; Lincoln’s “Mars” (the Secretary of War); and the New York City Tammany Hall politician who was instrumental in founding New York City’s Central...
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A Confederate in the White House
Emilie Todd HelmsSource: Kentucky Legislature Research Commission The Civil War eventually would claim over 600,000 lives in a country with only ten percent of today’s population. Some families split...
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Washington’s “It Girl” during the Civil War
Kate Chase (Source: Wikipedia) Since the time of the Madison administration, when Dolly Madison set the tone for Washington Society, the nation’s First Ladies dominated the Washington social scene....
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The Family Tragedies of Lincoln and Davis
Willie Lincoln (1850-1862) Source: wttv.com The Lincolns lost their eleven-year-old son, Willie, in February 1862, to typhoid fever. Another son, Eddie, had died of an illness two months shy of his...
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Civil War Personalities – Simon Cameron
Simon Cameron (Source: Library of Congress) One of the more colorful politicians of the Civil War era was Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, once accused of being so corrupt that the only thing he would...
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Judah Benjamin – Indispensable Adviser to Confederacy President Jefferson Davis
Judah Benjamin (Source: Biography.com) Edwin Stanton, President Lincoln’s second Secretary of War was the North’s most brilliant legal mind of the Civil War era. The South’s most brilliant legal mind...
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The Civil War’s First Ladies
If you are in the Washington, DC area, you should take the opportunity to visit the National Museum of American History. Among the more popular exhibits is one dedicated to the nation’s First Ladies....
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Financing America’s First Transcontinental Railroad
The roles of the Associates and the Central Pacific’s construction of the western leg of America’s first transcontinental railroad are laid out in detail in the past three articles. While the...
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