Blog Profile / A House Divided
| URL : | http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/house-divided | |
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| Filed Under: | History / US History | |
| Posts on Regator: | 261 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.4 | |
| Archived Since: | April 20, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Memorial Day remembrances at four area Civil War sites
Four Civil War sites, one each in Maryland and Virginia and two in Washington, have announced plans for services or events for Memorial Day that include parades, wreath laying, plantation, cemetery and battlefield tours, and rifle demonstrations. Read full article >>
NPS’s Ed Bearss going strong into his ninth decade
Just a few weeks shy of his 90th birthday, the seemingly indestructible Edwin “Ed” Bearss is still wowing his audiences with his encyclopedic knowledge of the Civil War and unique delivery. The Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service spoke recently to the Front Royal, Va. Show More Summary
Remains of Civil War soldiers to be buried at Arlington
The remains of two Indiana brothers who served in the Union army will be laid to rest in a joint full honors committal ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery at 9 a.m. Thursday. The men each died more than a century ago, but their cremated remains had remained at an Indianapolis funeral home because no one had claimed them. Read full article >>
Lincoln and the law of war symposium
On May 4, from 1 to 5 p.m., the Lincoln Group of D.C. is sponsoring a symposium, “Lincoln, Lieber and the Law of War: 1863-9/11” at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington. It will take place in the ceremonial court room. Read full article >>
Still time to register for Grant conference this weekend
The Ulysses S. Grant Association has scheduled a three-day conference and annual meeting in Georgetown, Ohio, the small town where Grant grew up. It begins Friday with a dinner and speaker, followed by a day-long bus and walking tour of Grant sites in the area, in particular the recent $1.4 million restored house where Grant grew up. Show More Summary
Moon blamed in Stonewall Jackson’s death
Just in time for the anniversary of the battle of Chancellorsville, there is a new theory as to why Lt. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s own men fired on him, mortally wounding him on the evening of May 2, 1863. Read full article >...
Winchester battlefield to return to 1864 farm appearance
Five years ago, the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation purchased a 209-acre parcel of the Third Winchester Battlefield that included the infamous Middle Field where some of the most desperate fighting had taken place. In that one phase of the battle on Sept. 19, 1864, more than 3,000 men became casualties. Read full article >>
Flag that draped Jackson’s coffin on exhibit
The rarely seen “Stainless Banner” that covered the coffin of Lt. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson while he lay in state in Richmond at the Capitol will be exhibited by the Museum of the Confederacy on May 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Show More Summary
Visit three Mosby sites on horseback
The Mosby Heritage Area Association in Atoka, Va,. is offering a tour May 5 of three of Col. John Singleton Mosby’s Civil War sites as seen from the back of a horse. Mosby, considered a terrorist by Union officials, was a Confederate hero on horseback who conducted surprise raids on Union camps. Show More Summary
Emancipation is subject of two D.C. talks
The Emancipation Proclamation, which was controversial when President Lincoln signed the declaration 150 years ago this year, continues to fascinate historians today. In Washington this month, there are two opportunities to learn more about Lincoln’s decision to free the slaves in certain parts of the Confederacy and why that continues to matter today. Read full article >>
New study says battlefield preservation creates jobs
The Civil War Trust has just released a study that indicates those communities which preserve battlefields and sponsor events around them get a job-boosting, economic return on the investment. “On average, every 702 tourists to a Civil...Show More Summary
Grant’s Ohio boyhood house reopens
The Georgetown, Ohio, two-story brick house where Civil War general and later President Ulysses S. Grant grew up has reopened after a $1.4 million restoration. Grant moved to the home with his family in 1823 when he was about a year old and left in 1839 when he went to West Point. Read full article >>
Spring cleaning for Civil War historic sites
The annual Civil War Trust Park Day, begun in 1996, is scheduled for April 6 and offers an opportunity to help get battlefields, historic building and cemeteries in 25 states ready for the tourist season. Think of it as an expanded spring cleaning. Read full article >>
Civil War pensions still being paid
Two children of Civil War veterans are still receiving government pensions, according to an AP article by Mike Baker. Because of privacy policies, federal officials refused to identify them, but Baker was told that one lived in North Carolina and the other in Tennessee. Read full article >>
Interpretive center at Kelly’s Ford opens today
On St. Patrick’s Day, 1863, the first large-scale cavalry battle of the Civil War took place at Kelly’s Ford in Culpeper, Va. On the sesquicentennial of that battle, which had no clear victor, the Civil War Trust is opening an interpretive center at the battlefield Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Show More Summary
Slavery expert to speak at Lincoln Cottage
James Oakes, winner of the 2012 Lincoln Prize for his book, “Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865,” will speak at President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, Washington D.C. on March 21 at 6:30 p.m. There is a fee of $10 for the lecture and a separate $10 fee for a reception at 6 p.m. Read full article >>
Rare Mary Lincoln letter is on the market
Mary Todd Lincoln, like all mothers everywhere, had to occasionally make arrangements for a babysitter for her children. Unlike other mothers, however, she didn’t call on a neighbor but rather on Treasury Department supervisor George Harrington, who would dispatch his employee Charles Forbes. Read full article >>
Modern day flu feels like the Civil War soldiers’ ague
Some two-thirds of all deaths in the Civil War were from disease. Army camps were rife with chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles, mumps and whooping cough. Then there was the mysterious ague (pronounced AY-gyu) with symptoms similar to the flu: fever, chills and fatigue. Read full article >>
Unknown dead of Monitor to be buried at Arlington
Ten years after two skeletons were found in the turret of the wrecked Civil War USS Monitor, the remains will be buried at Arlington Cemetery on March 8, according to an announcement by U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. Read full article >>
Tennessee lawmaker tries to stop renaming of Confederate parks, monuments
A Tennessee state legislator has introduced a bill that would, in part, prohibit the renaming or rededication of any historical monuments, memorials or parks previously named for military figures or wars. Rep. Steve McDaniel (R) sponsored the bill after the Memphis City Council voted to rename three parks with Civil War names. Show More Summary