President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving an annual, national holiday. But it was magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale ...
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is a figure of monumental historical importance, remembered not only as the only woman to receive the United States’ highest military award, the Medal of Honor, but also as a ...
The Mississippi belonged to the Union, and Grant was a hero. At Chattanooga, Tennessee, in September 1863, it was Union troops who were in danger of being starved out. There, the Army of the ...
In the summer of 1863 I was wounded, and in hospital for a time ... Mr. Hawthorne died. I was ill since September, and since April in Boston for a physician's care. He does not let me go, yet I work ...
He issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22. The proclamation warned the Confederate states to surrender by January 1, 1863, or their slaves would be freed. Some people ...
On the night of 19 November 1863, three bushrangers approached Goimbla Homestead, near Eugowra in central western New South Wales.
Frederick Kramer migrated from the city of Halle, Prussia, to Boston, Mass., in 1848. He was 19 years old. In 1852, he enlisted in the Seventh Cavalry E Company of the U.S. Army, which took him to ...
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: 11 October 1871, Haverhill, Mass. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901. Citation: In the ...
Before then, they ranged from as short as 45 days in 1863 to 177 days in 1949 ... House Bill 18 takes effect September 1.
The following list of deaths of Harvard men during the summer is taken from the records of the editor of the Quinquennial Catalogue: THE COLLEGE. Class. 1832. William Cushing Div. 1849, born 15 ...
Boston College was founded in 1863 by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) to educate Boston’s predominantly Irish, Catholic immigrant community. It opened its doors on September 5, 1864, in a building ...
(Both Sarasin and Geyer were German immigrants.) After the Union occupation of Little Rock in September 1863, Frederick Kramer opened another grocery store, this time with Adeline's sister's ...